TRPG General Chat - 2019-03-10

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2:00 AM

btw, dunno if anyone caught it, but here's last week's episode of Rollout:

ROLLOUT Season 2: KIDNAPPED and CAPTURED... in LOINCLOTHS?!! - Episode 2

it's a D&D series featuring a number of WWE stars. I'm really enjoying this season so far.

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3:54 AM

@MikeQ I go by Magos

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4:09 AM

Diablo 1... here I come!

@Miniman [wave]

@Ben Heyo! I saw D1 on GOG too - definitely happening at some point soon.

Although I have too many things going already at the moment.

And Sekiro is coming soon...

@Ash was nice enough to direct my attention to it

user15026

I am a good enabler of gaming!

Being on limited funds really has helped me restrict things that grab my attention lol

user15026

Husband creature will likely buy it and then I can watch him play it which works for me! (Some days I think that the reason I want to be done immigration so much is so that he can play video games for me in my house :P)

4:12 AM

That does sound preferable

You know that feeling you get when you load up an old PS game, and that theme plays?

Nostalgia shivers haha

Haha

Just wandering through Tristram... Like, you can hear it on YouTube, but it's not the same until you actually play it lol

4:38 AM

@Shalvenay hiya

@nitsua60 you think we can talk a bit tomorrow?

Maybe in the evening--day's pretty busy. (My wife's running a half-mar, kids and I are cheering her on.)

@nitsua60 OK

4:53 AM

@nitsua60 woo!

And Ben, it turns out.

=)

:D hope she does well!

5:08 AM

@nitsua60 Good luck to her!

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7:43 AM

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8:02 AM

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I have, on a couple occasions noticed either (1) a spoiler box being used incorrectly - that is, it didn't actually hide all the info that was spoiler info. And (2) a spoiler box being used when the information included in the spoiler did not add any pertinent information to the statement the res...

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8:16 AM

spammer, please flag/vote for deletion:

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8:30 AM

Thanks @V2Blast

The sentinel of the feed

9:02 AM

o7

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11:39 AM

Hmm. I'm wondering how to model Detective Dee's stick-and-meridians combat style in Fate.

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12:41 PM

> Flicking Stick. While wielding this stick you are immune to mundane attacks you see coming, but you cannot make attacks. You also get +2 when using this stick to create advantages by striking the qi meridians of a target.

1:38 PM

hey there @Glazius and @ACuriousMind

@Shalvenay ahoi

The fatal flaw in D1 - enemies that retreat. They move as fast as you do, and retreat as soon as you hit them. As the warrior, you chase them halfway around the map before they die

@ACuriousMind game will be in ~20mins btw, (blame DST if you're wondering where I was :)

@Shalvenay Oh, I thought it was 1 hour and 20 mins, but this'll work, too

Timezones are confusing

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This question How bad is Sunlight Sensitivity (of Drow, etc.), especially for casters? has two questions on it: How bad is Sunlight Sensitivity, especially for casters? How to mitigate it? Now, it seems like it should've been closed as too broad (two questions in one post), but arguably the s...

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2:00 PM

Oh. Daylight Savings is happening.

@Ben This is one of many reasons that no-one really wants to play a warrior :P

@Glazius yup, take it you'll be in once you get all your clocks updated?

2:24 PM

clocks incl. biological, which said "you've still got an hour to shower and make breakfast", sure.

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3:49 PM

Afternoon

yo

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4:57 PM

quick, someone vote to reopen rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/142817/resistance-and-parry so we can then vote to close it as a duplicate

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6:42 PM

@Carcer: Done! :)

@Carcer It came up in my review queue already closed as a dupe, and I voted to keep it closed. Was that useful?

@Ben Look up "telekill" for warrior in D1. It's useful.

I remember having to use it against the succubi in D1 quite a bit.

Here is a link

Specifically this part of that guide

6:59 PM

We had this dumb debate as to what spell level "summon scone" should be. Plausibly too powerful for a cantrip but definitely too weak for level 1.

7:38 PM

@Joshua LOL, assuming it's a food item, :P aren't there spells for that already?

7:50 PM

Hi all

I'm definitely looking for some further thought on my question here:

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Q: How do enemies retreat from combat?

What are the mechanics for enemies retreating from combat? Enemies can choose to retreat from combat for many reasons, both of mundane choice and special mechanics. One that can potentially come up often is the effect of the Craven ability of some adversaries: Craven - If at the beginning o...

It's a real problem that will be coming up imminently

@Shalvenay: There are.

8:10 PM

hey there @nitsua60

8:25 PM

@Shalvenay hiya

@nitsua60 how'd the half-marathon go?

30 degrees, freezing rain, an inch of slush on the roads... and she still came in under her goal time. A good day, to be sure!

Thanks for asking.

@nitsua60 nice :) now a good time for us to talk on Discord a bit?

Not great--I have to pop out to pick up the boy in a couple of minutes, then make dinner. In the evening, though.

@nitsua60 k

8:46 PM

Dragon+: Jeremy Crawford on the Artificer, 3/6/19

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9:13 PM

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9:47 PM

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10:13 PM

> Monstrous Illusions. (assumes skill-less variant) When you use hypnotic sorcery to create advantages by making people see mundane people as monstrous, the subjects of your illusions can treat their illusion aspect as if it were a character aspect when determining modifiers to their action rolls.

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10:23 PM

@kviiri at least it is non em-California-king-sized-bed?

10:48 PM

[wave]

@Miniman True. The tradeoff though is that if you play a rogue or sorc, you have to kill everything before the enemies get near you.

@KorvinStarmast This is useful. I shall have to employ this next time.

lol Embiggen

Currently made it to the caves (level 11). I made the mistake of selling my Butcher's Cleaver, and my last save was on level 4. Lol

I was also unfortunately reminded of the Spitting Terror enemy. Good grief.

Maybe this one's better...

> Monstrous Illusions. (assumes skill-less variant) When you use hypnotic sorcery to create an advantage by making people see monstrous fictions, actions targeting your victims treat the illusion aspect as a character aspect for the purpose of determining roll modifiers.

11:04 PM

@BESW so targeting vs targeted?

@Ben Basically it's whether you're placing the aspect Looks like the Heavenly King of Sight on the person you want to look like the Heavenly King of Sight, or if you're placing See the Heavenly King of Sight on everyone you want to think is seeing the Heavenly King of Sight.

Right. Fair enough

(I watched Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings last night, and the source material on this is... vague... as to the targeting mechanism of the sorcerous illusions.)

Actually... it should probably be a zone aspect.

I'll have to take your word for it haha

It's on Netflix!

I really like the Detective Dee movies.

They're basically wuxia Sherlock Holmes.

11:09 PM

@BESW The American or Asia-pacific Netflix? :P

@Ben I'm not sure which Guam gets anymore.

hey there @Bookwyrm, welcome to the RPG.SE lair :)

We used to seem to be on the Philippine grid but now it seems more American.

Well, even then I'm not sure if its actually a zone thing... I mean obviously it likely would, by default, but my friend that lives in Canberra has the American version.

No idea how or why they have it, either.

Correction: they're wuxia Erast Fandorin.

11:12 PM

@BESW They're like the wuxia version of the Hollywood action version of Sherlock Holmes

@MikeQ I figured 'movie action' was covered by 'wuxia.'

I mean, you're not wrong

Di doesn't seem to do much detectiving in the movies though

Nevertheless a fun series

He does lots of quick-fire scene evaluation, deducing motives from minimal clues, figuring out how tricks were done, that kind of thing.

True. The magic gorilla vs demon kaiju battle was a bit much though

Without comparisons to Western culture, though, the Detective Dee series is a wuxia-style historical fantasy franchise presenting the real-life Tang dynasty figure Di Renjie as a hypercompetent investigator for the imperial court. He solves mysteries of national significance and supernatural character, defeating coups and mystical threats.

11:17 PM

hey there @user90652, welcome to the RPG.SE lair :)

He also has a magic vibrating mace of truth

Which is awesome.

As of last year and The Four Heavenly Kings, there are three Detective Dee films. I like 'em and sometimes think about taking RPG from them.

Similar, although I'm hesitant because I don't want to bump into the cultural fantasy misrepresentation problem (e.g. Qadira)

yeah, that's A Thing.

@BESW Although I think the fantasy-mystery narratives of the Detective Dee series could translate into any magical setting. Maybe.

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11:31 PM

@BESW This sounds interesting.

@BESW e.g. "Illusionist military coup" is a cool premise but may encounter bumps if any given person has a reasonable chance to disbelieve the illusion

@MikeQ It'd take some work; Detective Dee is very tightly tied to a specific historical and cultural space, in the changeover between the Tang and Zhou dynasties, and how devotion to family, country, and faith conflict within that context.

A transplanted story would need to find some replacement for those elements or it'd lose a lot of its tension.

@BESW sounds pretty cool

@Ash I'm not sure if you'd like it, but it's maybe worth a shot? I'm unfamiliar with your experience with wuxia adventure films.

@trogdor I'll add it to the queue!

Cool beans

user15026

11:40 PM

@BESW I have watched a couple, if I have enough spoons I liked what I saw!

If there's a queue, do you mind recommending any others from that list?

@MikeQ I haven't actually been maintaining the list for a while... I probably should. [rummages]

I have no idea what's even on that theoretical list anymore

Except detective Dee I guess

XD

So, the idea of the queue was originally that I'd host a recurring Double Feature Night for friends. We'd watch two movies that were worth watching but we'd be unlikely to watch normally, and I'd choose them so that watching the two movies together would bring out some theme or concept in both of them.

It's sort of fallen apart lately because of schedules, but that was the idea.

user15026

That sounds fun, though :)

11:44 PM

Yep

It was

user15026

Most of my friends are on the internet so things like that are....even trickier! TIME ZOOOOONES. shakes fist

Though it often only involved us two

@Ash a lot of ours are too, just the ones that aren't are chronically busy

user15026

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For example, watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show with The Phantom of the Paradise, or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Henry’s Crime.

@Ash Everything about timezones are like that. Even the simple part like Timezone math, which should be straight forward, never is.

11:46 PM

I think one of my most inspired pairings was The Hunger with Death Becomes Her.

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@Ben Do I have daylight savings? Do you? WHEN ARE WE?

I hate Timezones math

It seems like it should be really easy but it is not

(Part of the art of the double feature is finding a good tonal pairing so that it doesn't get super depressing to have back-to-back downers, or whatever.)

I thank my lucky stars tht I don't have to deal with any of that DST nonsense.

I would be happy too if I remembered I didn't have to do DST stuff

But I blame media for assuming everyone does

Which makes me feel better

11:48 PM

It'd be very appropriate to do a double feature for In the Heat of the Night and Get Out, but for the sake of my friends it's better to do Get Out with Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Yeah that was nice

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All of these titles are unfamiliar to my brain mostly!

Get out is a horror movie about a black photographer going to meet his white girlfriend's parents

Guess who's coming to dinner is very similar Except it's feel good instead of horror

Similar I mean just in that concept

As you might imagine they are very different movies

They were both great

And Get Out didn't even hardly scare me in the bad way

Mostly only the good way

I hate jump scares and Get Out didn't really have any

I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate the jump scares

They need to go die forever

@Ash I figure you probably know Rocky Horror. Phantom of the Paradise is a mashup on Phantom of the Opera and Faust as an over-the-top satire about the '70s record industry. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is an existential comedy that re-frames Hamlet as a surreal experience imposed on the title characters; Henry's Crime is a romantic heist drama about a man who's never taken control of his own decisions;

The Hunger is an arthouse film in which David Bowie is the latest in a long line of lovers used and discarded by an ancient vampire; Death Becomes Her is a slapstick comedy about aging beauty queens who become immortal to spite each other; In the Heat of the Night is a '60s film about a black homicide detective from the city who gets accused of murder while passing through a small rural town.

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