Hopefully somebody figures out that the Squatty Potty Prince role is a sign that he can say anything with a straight face, and how valuable that is in an era of speculative fiction franchises.
Eh, middling. Local-life is on the up-and-up, wife's dad was in for surgery again today and isn't great.
My youngest daughter had basketball "practice" today. She doesn't enjoy competing, so she's declared herself the assistant coach. All I can say is if the girl ever *does* decide to play basketball, she's going to be boss at rebounding and distributing.
@Shalvenay Probably not--when I get off work I'm going to go visit for a bit with my neighbor who lost his son and then somehow unwind from that before hitting the sack.
http://blog.roll20.net/post/182807074010/more-sound-more-space "My Audio, which brings the ability to upload audio directly to Roll20, is live today! We’re rolling this feature out early in response to the news of Fanburst closing. There will be further improvements coming next month in our Bring Your Own Beat update that will add better user interface and quality of life tools to the Jukebox.
With the addition of directly uploaded music and animations to the Roll20 tabletop, we knew that storage needs for users would increase. As such, we’ve been tracking the impact of storage and streami…
also: It appears there may have been an attack on Roll20 that may have resulted in a data breach. It seems there shouldn’t be a need for major alarm as the important information and passwords should have been encrypted, but good reminder to practice good security and password habits.
Read more here: http://blog.roll20.net/post/182811484420/roll20-security-breach
I guess, arguably, the neutrons are the poison, but doing surgery on atomic nuclei is pretty extreme.
Thinking like one of those nature spirits that gives your druid the power to cast the spell, I think I wouldn't even recognize the substance as water. It's fake water.
You can tell by the fact that nothing grows in it.
> What is zero percent chocolate? That’s the white stuff. It’s made of the fatty solids in the cocoa bean and none of the poisonous compounds. What we know of as "white chocolate" is mostly cocoa butter and sugar mixed with milk. Hence, it’s 100-percent safe for dogs.
When your new most upvoted answer is behind a selected +3 answer (I know the check mark is only a metric for how it helps the OP, but I still thinks it's funny)
@Joshua -- btw, I was thinking I'd need to come up with a nightmare for a char of mine...and it involved the rest of the party being turned into giant balor-like demons stomping about, but instead of flaming whips and whatnot, they had little boxes with knobs on them, and they have to make Will saves to not fiddle with the knobs.
as it turns out, the knobs are connected to various bits of the deep, dark workings of nature
one of them fiddles with the isotopic distribution of all the atoms on the plane, another influences the nucleon binding energies, and so on and so forth....
@EnderLook Sure, but purify food and drink won't make water out of, say, a sheet of paper, even though it's "only" water plus carbon. And heavy water is "water" only in a narrow technical sense.
And "narrow technical sense" sounds like wizard magic.
@Shalvenay: well if you want a fast death. Change the fine structure constant by less than one percent and every element decays to something with more protons
Last Monday, one of my favorite singers went to the great Star Bar in Heaven (I sure hope)
Never been one to mourn celebrities dying, so emotionally it's not that big of a deal to me, but I'm a bit bummed out about his work having to end like this
@Mazura We find that it's most effective to talk about specific things that are happening rather than generalizing, but we also try to make sure the discussions are about the behavior rather than the people.
Instant-pick-up one-page one-shots? Honey Heist, Lasers & Feelings, Cthulhu Dark, Scrolls & Swords, All Outta Bubblegum, Danger Patrol: Pocket Edition... want me to list things I'm not sure if I'll ever even try but have anyway?
Your problem is "My players aren't using the refreshment mechanic. I think they're new to the idea of refreshment scenes and need some help with it. How can I help them use refreshment scenes more?"
In the next month or so I'm going to start running the Dresden Files RPG soon with a group that has most of its experience in D&D 3.5 and 4e. We're all new to FATE, and I tried to explain the stress track to one player today. I think he understood the mechanics of how to use the stress track, but...
@MikeQ ...the Hicks Family RPG, Damnit Roger!, Everyone is John, Spandex!, The Ghosts of NPCs Passed, Unbelievable Macho Bullshit, Ghost/Echo, Mustang, Roll for Shoes, Abort Retry Fail, Point Man...
Sooner is better than later. You don't need to add all your passwords to it at once — as you start signing into websites it'll start asking you if you want to save those credentials (say yes).
You won't have to deal with not remembering which password you use, either, or losing track of your usernames/emails on old sites.
@doppelgreener I used to use one in the past. Is there a commonly accepted best general use one? Or should I do some research and see if there is one best suited for me (platforms Android and Windows)
There are offline password managers. If you need one of those I recommend KeePass2 (free & excellent). I don't recommend these if you have more than one device — if so you will be putting your password vault online anyway in cloud storage, which defeats the security benefits of an offline password manager. Also in my experience I would periodically lose credentials or wind up with two copies of my vault due to a sync conflict.
I appreciate that recommendation and is exactly why I asked. I do like hearing from people I trust rather than review sites even though I have a few that I trust quite a bit. so, thanks! :)
@Rubiksmoose LastPass was useful for a group of sysadmins that had inherited a shared password system that was... archaic to put it charitably. It's useful for me so that my partner can log into Netflix without having to know my password. It does shared access without a shared password pretty well.
I previously used keepass for an offline usb stick based approach, but keeping that up to date an on my person was a bit of a pain in the butt.
@vicky_molokh Everything about it. UI looks and handles better. Its apps are better across the board. The browser plugin behaves better. All of it is just flat-out better.
Also, 1Password handles additional data fields in a way Lastpass just flat-out doesn't. I have even experienced Lastpass breaking when I try to give it additional data fields.
I honestly don't care how gif is pronounced but I'd like to hear people who base their opinion on the pronunciation of "graphics" to pronounce "scuba" and "laser" for me
@doppelgreener That's interesting. Has 1Password had to deal with a major vulnerability discovery? Have you heard about how good or bad their bug bounty policy is?
Also, 1Password implemented Pwned Passwords integration the first day it was out; Lastpass AFAIK has yet to implement them at all. This means 1Password tells you when a password is weak based on appearance in data breaches.
If a service requires you to use an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a special character, it's making your password weaker. Hackers know your password is almost certainly going to look like Longword1!
I can't remember the site, but I had one thing that had like 6 options, "What was the name of your Paternal Grandmother" "What was the breed of your father's favorite pet" some dumb question
then three I could actually use
@vicky_molokh that could work if it was always an issue, but usually, I can just ignore it, so I've never bothered to think about it.
@doppelgreener do you use Windows or iOS/Mac or both? One thing I'm reading says that some features for 1pass aren't available on windows/android/ChromeOS yet. Do you have any experience?
> addr-spec = local-part "@" domain > local-part = dot-atom / quoted-string / obs-local-part So by RFC2822 you can have `"customerservice@google.com"@scam.com`, but it needs the quotes because `@` is not part of the dot-atom characters.
@doppelgreener Even more trivially, a hacker can discount any string consisting of all uppercase, all lowercase, lacking a number, etc., which is a significant amount of potential passwords.
@SirCinnamon What I'd like to see is Disney try a newer, more complex retelling, closer to the original source material. But based on their recent remake films, and the trailers for this one, I suspect it's just another "remastered version".
@MikeQ That's totally valid, and i wouldn't say i'm insanely hyped for what is essentially a remake - but if anything, will smith would probably be the ONLY reason i would see it
@goodguy5 The w3c is more like guidelines in a sea of pirates. Parlay with a webhost all you want, but you're still going to get some busted html back anyway.
I think I need some help understanding the root of the issue with that question about a DM's custom features and how it ruins the player's character. Because I'm really not sure I get it.
The thing that bothers me, I think, is that the OP seems to have whole-cloth created this Beyond: Two Souls character, and they're upset that the DM added a narrative justification for it and gave them some extra (relatively minor, IMO) features they can use as a consequence... and that's apparently "making the character too crazy to roleplay"?
I think all that really matters is that OP feels that the DM has changed the core of the character. It would be nice, but I'm not sure they are going to be able to make us understand exactly why they feel that way.
Expressing discontent without getting a defensive reaction is tough for some people. I assume there are people out there where personal interactions come with a lot less effort.
@Rubiksmoose yes. People really like their own ideas and beliefs. We're hard-wired to defend those. If you want an idea adopted by someone, make sure they think it is their idea.
@Xirema Taking drugs and exploring other people's dreams? No thanks. I like the low effort thanking the other person for the idea a little later on during the conversation. Sometimes that's all it takes.
It is possible the DM just misunderstood the concept as well. If they never voiced any objection then I wonder if they could have been confused at exactly what they are getting at.
Not gonna lie, I think the OP is a little heated with the whole "The concept is nonsense and silly! He's not part dead, he's a fusion of two NEAR-DEAD twins" as though they arent both equally ridiculous
like, if the DM is forcing changes to your character backstory that's something to be annoyed about but tbh this sounds like it's just a misunderstanding
@SirCinnamon That's my response as well. Like, I was confused at first, thinking maybe the "they were near-dead twins!" part was a complete fabrication by the DM. But that doesn't appear to be the case.
At this point, I really don't understand what this detail by the DM changes on a fundamental level about who the character is or how they should be roleplayed.
@Xirema While I agree, I think that the solution remains the same: talk it out. The player is unhappy and they should come to an agreement such that they are happy playing their character or at least make the displeasure known
I'm not even sure writing an answer saying "suck it up the changes are minor" would be helpful here because there is simply no way to convince OP of that and these changes seem really trivial to adjust (and the DM already seems to be on board with changing stuff to make things work).
Well a) we dont know what his alternate feat is and b) he's upset about flavour text so if the DM insists on that flavour text then the options are stay or dont
Sure stay or leave is always a possibility that could arise. I still think Colin has the right take on getting the issue solved before that point though.
I always try to make it abundantly clear to my players that I want them to tell me whenever something is upsetting or bothering them no matter how small (during a break or after session preferably).
I try to make it clear that I try to leave my ego at the door and that I am there to serve the table a heaping pile of fun and if they aren't having it, then I want to know (even if it means I messed up).
@SirCinnamon that bugs the bejeesus out of me too. Only secondary are the players that view the DM as the adversary (without that viewpoint being expressed by the DM)
Like players that try to keep secrets and "get one over" on the DM. I come down hard on that kind of thing. We are telling a story togehter. Work with me, not against me, and I'll do the same to you.
@Rubiksmoose I do no secrets at all on the player side. Characters can have secrets. Players shouldn't, and I really like having all characters sheets globally visible. Makes it easy to award points for role playing in situations where the player knows the secret but the character doesn't.
@Rubiksmoose Have you seen or had a player that hides something from the DM? If so, how?
Usually it's not a huge problem if the surprise is purely mechanical. E.g. I allowed all the books when I ran Pathfinder, so the optimizer players would often try to surprise me with obscure and powerful spells. The downside was having to pause the game to read how the mechanics worked.
When it's a roleplay or character concept surprise, or something that disrupts the... flow? rhythm? of the narrative or party dynamic, then it's more of an issue
E.g. "My character is actually a secret agent so I stab the NPCs before [other PCs] get to interrogate them". It's an annoyance.
@ColinGross Either combinations of effects, or a divine caster who had access to Too Many spells. Again, was only an issue in time management, but not player-player-DM trust, so I was usually ok with it.
