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12:00 AM

@MikeQ I am satisfied by this explanation

> Wisdom of the birds. You can use Perception to defend against physical attacks even if you would normally be completely unaware of them, so long as there are wild animals in the scene which can warn you.

MikeQ

The character would need to be proficient with birds in order to get the AC bonus

BESW

King's Quest V - A Poisonous Snake!

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Black Spike

So, what Machines might be present in an Industrial Candy Factory?

BESW

12:16 AM

The Kandy Man Vs. The Doctor & Ace | Happiness Patrol | Doctor Who | BBC

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Shalvenay

@BlackSpike I think there have been a few candy factories on How Its Made and friends

Black Spike

Of course! I probably have a copy of that somewhere!

@Shalvenay true. I stopped watching "How It's made" when I realised that 90% of the answers were: In a big factory! :)

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike :P I personally like seeing machinery one wouldn't ordinarily get to see, though

BESW

Don't forget the Fondant Surprise.

Black Spike

The surprise is: That's NOT fondant! :o

I should make sure to include a Crunchy Frog

BESW

12:20 AM

It was a form of execution devised by the Kandy Man; you got smothered to death in liquid fondant.

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike I think the first big question is "what sort of confections are we talking about?"

Black Spike

Long time since I watched that Story.

Shalvenay

a chocolate plant is going to be different from a hard-candy/caramel setup, which is going to be different from things like taffies, and there are other sorts of miscellaneous confections that don't fit well into any of those categories

Black Spike

@Shalvenay well, it's major customer used to be the local carnival (candy-floss, toffee-apples, Big Candy Lollypops, etc). but they got ran out of town , so the place is a bit run-down, and making anything it can sell

BESW

I'd assume it makes whatever candies you want to have machinery for.

Shalvenay

12:23 AM

@BlackSpike so likely hard candies and caramels

Black Spike

It's a big place :) it can have a chocolate production Line, as well as the Taffee Section

BESW

An enormous taffy puller would be great.

Black Spike

I've already defined that a 20' tall taffee-stretcher exists :)

Big vats of molten sugar

of various colours/flavours/viscosities

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike actually, simple syrup :)

(which is basically a hot, concentrated sugar solution)

BESW

Cotton candy centrifuges!

Shalvenay

12:25 AM

fraingroup.com/equipment-categories/candy

@BESW my understanding is that cotton candy is typically made more in situ

so yeah, you'd have your kettle area, which has all the "vats" (really, jacketed steam kettles with hatches for adding ingredients and pipework)

V2Blast

Do we have a meta about how to "prove a negative" (e.g. show that something is not addressed by the rules)?

Black Spike

As the Factory is right next to the Carnival, it can have an industrial Cotton Candy machine!

V2Blast

kind of the opposite of this:

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Q: How do we back up affirmative answers to "Am I understanding this correctly"-style questions?

A new user left this answer to the Can Heighten Spell benefit a [Reserve] feat?: Legal and working as intended. I found this question (and answer) when looking through the review queue, and there was already the standard "Don't give a one line answer" boilerplate on the given answer. I was...

BESW

@Shalvenay it's also sold in bags, but I don't think we're really worried about justifying this stuff.

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike heheheh. maybe it's something they wheel out for the Carnival?

MikeQ

12:27 AM

@BlackSpike Oozes made of caramel, molasses, taffy, etc. Gingerbread golems. Candy floss elementals. Licorice ropers.

Black Spike

Yeah, but the Carnival closed down a few weeks ago ...

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike so yeah, it's in a back shed XD

you'd probably have mixing functions on your steam kettles, as well as some dedicated mixers

BESW

If you're going for a retro feel, have lots of dangerous and toxic chemicals historically used for coloring and setting candies.

Shalvenay

rollers, extruders, and depositors, as well as die-cutters and guillotines for shaping and forming various candies

BESW

Chromium, copper, mercury, arsenic...

MikeQ

12:28 AM

And 7 specific traps, each of which corresponds to a cardinal sin

Black Spike

OK, getting some fun ideas here. The PCs (well, one PC) has already initiated combat, up in the gantries above the factory floor ... Start of next session, he rolls off the gantry, and dives towards the Machines ...

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike XD

MikeQ

The oompa loompas have a siren song that fascinates their victims

KorvinStarmast

@MageintheBarrel I have an answer the gets to the guts of why EGG and friends chose Vancian and Slots. Sometimes understanding that helps get over the "this is kinda weird compared to video games" responses

Black Spike

Oh, toxic chemicals definately ... the PCs are there under the guise of an impromptu Health-and-Safetty inspection

Shalvenay

12:29 AM

@BlackSpike eheheh. don't even bother with the toxic chemicals

think of more mundane industrial hazards

BESW

Great clouds of powdered sugar.

MikeQ

@Shalvenay Lack of guardrails?

Shalvenay

pinch points, crush hazards, unguarded blades

@MikeQ yes, lack of guards

Black Spike

@BESW oh yes!

Shalvenay

as well as electrical hazards

BESW

12:30 AM

(Don't forget, sufficiently fine dust in the air can catch fire even if the material wouldn't normally be considered flammable.)

Shalvenay

steam, too

@BESW and YES THIS

I was getting there

Black Spike

Yeah, factories in general can be dangerous places

Shalvenay

also, how does the factory ship stuff?

if it's a big factory, it's going to be rail-served most likely

BESW

Entire candy factories have actually exploded from sugar dust catching fire.

Shalvenay

which brings its own fun and games to the table

Black Spike

12:31 AM

There is a Loading Bay where the 18-wheelers pull up to

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike so, just trucks then

MikeQ

@BESW Fun fact*: That's how caramel popcorn was invented

Black Spike

@MikeQ true?

Shalvenay

@MikeQ I wouldn't make too much light of sugar dust explosions

Black Spike

Yeah, middle of (future) Manhatan. No railway until off the island

BESW

12:32 AM

Enormous chocolate enrober is a must.

Black Spike

a what now?

MikeQ

The device that puts chocolate coating on things

Shalvenay

@BESW yeah, I wasn't getting into chocolatier stuff so much

MikeQ

Like toffee, nougat, or unwitting victims

Black Spike

Oh, the big "curtain" of chocolate that everthing (including PCs?) pass under?

Shalvenay

12:33 AM

but if you want to have a chocolate line....that means you'll have enrobers, tempering ovens

BESW

Chocolate Enrober - Perfect Equipement

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Shalvenay

some more steam kettles

also, I forgot: you'll have various chillers scattered around as well

most utility will be steam or chilled water/refrigerant, as well as BIG electricity

Black Spike

OK, there's a massive Enrober. :)

MikeQ

If you want a steampunk vibe, you'll need lots of levers, knobs, pipes, and gears with no discernable purpose

Black Spike

Lots of heat, and cold ...

Shalvenay

12:34 AM

not only do you have your typical stuff like beat-up cords and boxes

Black Spike

@MikeQ good call. It's retro-cyber-gutter-punk. Big racks of levers and buttons are all the rage! :)

BESW

Great big blasts of air.

V2Blast

nobody answered my question :(

Shalvenay

but industrial-scale electricity poses a nasty hazard called arc flash

if someone is dumb and pokes a metal object into a piece of industrial switchgear.....

BESW

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Q: What is an acceptable form for a "no" answer to a question of the form "Does X exist in the lore?"

This question asks whether there is an "in-universe" explanation for a particular piece of lore in a particular setting. Note that there is already a meta question about the question's topicality. The appropriateness of the question aside, how does one provide an acceptable answer to such a quest...

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Black Spike

12:35 AM

@V2Blast How to prove a negative? Sorry, not sure. Busy with candy :P

Shalvenay

KABOOOM!

BESW

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Q: What To Do When There Are No Right Answers, Only Wrong Ones

This question, about the fairness of a 7-sided die, troubles me. It is in my opinion well-thought out and well-formulated. It is asking if a particular die has had any sort of rigorous analysis (physics-based or statistics-based) performed to test its fairness. That is simple, direct, and if s...

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V2Blast

@BESW thanks :)

BESW

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Q: Whether to answer or not if one believes there is no answer possible

So, there is this (good) question about asking for a particular authoritative source. However, I believe there can be no answer either because of some fundamental problem with the framework or because any answer would be so subjective it would mean nothing. Should I leave a comment? Well, no si...

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Black Spike

naked bus-bars, while PCs fling large metal bits around?

Shalvenay

12:36 AM

@BlackSpike in a dedicated electrical room, perhaps

the PCs broke in in hot pursuit of their target and didn't pay mind to the DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE sign on the door

Arc Flash Awareness

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Black Spike

It is very unlikely that the combat will cause steel gantries to fall down, crackign insulation and electrifying the production lines! very unlikely indeed ....

:P

Shalvenay

big naked busbars overhead, with big cabinets full of breakers etc

@BlackSpike ah, well, a lot of that will be in much more down-to-earth sized cable trays :P

they inadvertently poke a tray cable, causing a machine to become energized suddenly when folks thought it was turned off, because the party (of course) isn't clued in on LOTO

Black Spike

and by "unlikely" ... well, you know what players are like ...

Oh, the machine SHOULD have been unplugged and isolated, but they actually just pressed the OFF button ... still conncted ....

BESW

Make sure there's lots of conveyor belts which will take you very quickly to seemingly random points in the factory.

Black Spike

LOTO?

Shalvenay

12:40 AM

@BESW yes, plenty of conveyors

Black Spike

good call

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike Lock-out/Tag-out

especially in an older building where real estate was hard to come by, you'd have conveyors, chutes, etc wound all over the shop

BESW

Use them to escape from one problem into another, or have exciting chases jumping from belt to belt going in different directions.

Black Spike

aha. "Unplug the damn machine"

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike well, for cord-and-plug stuff, that's one answer, but a lot of industrial machines are big honking things that are hardwired or plugged into busway

that's another factor, if they are doing a reconfigurable setup -- much of the power distribution on the floor won't be anything like what you know

BESW

12:41 AM

If it's from the mid 19th century to early/mid 20th century, you can justify pneumatic tube systems connecting different parts of the building.

Shalvenay

instead, it will be done using super-duper industrial lighting tracks called busway

BESW

Or just put them in and don't worry about justifying them at all, pneumatic tubes are awesome.

Shalvenay

starlinepower.com/busway

Black Spike

in a rarity for cyber(?) punk, none of the players are Techies. But they are Blood-mages, so they can stab a random employee and drin their blood to borrow thier skills

@Shalvenay yes, the place is undergoing re-fit, so nothing is where it should be :)

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike and yeah, pissed off industrial plant employees getting even at actual assailants with things like forklifts and other pieces of mobile machinery

BESW

12:44 AM

Some businesses still do use pneumatic tubes for some tasks, but as late as the 1960s people were still seriously considering it for human transit.

Shalvenay

never mind just outright tossing a dude into a live switchgear cabinet

or some machine somewhere :)

Black Spike

:)

BESW

Also: speaking tubes that let you eavesdrop but can make it hard to figure out where people really are.

Shalvenay

you'd probably have lots of drums (typically plastic these days, but metal works too)

as well as what are called Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) and large jerrican-like "totes"

Black Spike

@BESW can justify that! radio/cellphones don't work on the Factory Floor ... what with all the Factory goin gon

Shalvenay

12:46 AM

@BlackSpike yeah, especially if the factory has some older equipment, the RFI will likely be a bit on the horrendous side

Black Spike

drums, crates, barrels, jerry-cans

Shalvenay

the IBCs are what you'd see instead of crates, and old-school barrels aren't going to show up

user15026

@BESW that always terrifies me as a thing because Alli can think about is getting stuck

Shalvenay

(they've been replaced by drums for 99% of things)

Black Spike

difference between a drum and a barrel?

BESW

12:47 AM

Oh, and packaging. Stuffing plastic bags and heat-sealing them, filling boxes and taping them shut, etc.

Black Spike

(sounds like you have 1st hand XP of factories)

Shalvenay

@BESW ah yes, packaging machines such as heat-sealers, box-fillers, that sort of thing

@BlackSpike (not quite plant-floor level first-hand :)

Black Spike

I did some warehouse work, summer job.

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike barrels are made using hoops and staves, drums are basically seamless around their circumference or have a single longitudinal seam

Black Spike

Spent my time repacking barbie dolls

aha. modern, pre-fab barrels :)

Shalvenay

12:48 AM

basically, yeah

you'd have probably a few welding setups roaming around if things were being rearranged

Black Spike

we had to rip down pallets of boxes of packets of boxes of dolls, put a sticker on, and repackage!

Shalvenay

(btw, IBCs not only come in rigid varieties, but flexible as well (called "supersack" or the likes)

(imagine a giant version of the woven polypropylene bags that replaced burlap bags)

Black Spike

oh, all the refit work, yeah, that's ongoing ... welding, bare wires, stuff in the wrong place, lifting-gear,

Shalvenay

yes, forklifts, chain-lifts and the like, stuff that's locked out or should be locked out :P

Black Spike

"should be" ...

Shalvenay

12:51 AM

open ends to what are normally steam (or syrup/chocolate/...) pipes, unhooked wires

Black Spike

tag-line for the whole campaign , being gutterpunk is "Dirty, Used and Broken"

Shalvenay

oh, and lots of the product plumbing coming off the kettles would be steam jacketed, along with all the steam and product lines being lagged (insulated)

probably lots of sugar-syrup slop everywhere

as that and dust buildups from powdered ingredients would be your main source of dirt, really

Black Spike

oh yes. lots of multi-coloured, unidentifiable puddles, hardened lumps, everywhere

Shalvenay

XD

steam leaks

Black Spike

yup

Shalvenay

12:55 AM

probably fairly spic and span other than the foodstuff messes though, I wouldn't expect rust at all

Black Spike

ok cool. will try to get back into this mindset on Game Night! Nasty, Dangerous Factory,

Shalvenay

as most industrial foodservice stuff is made of stainless steel

Black Spike

maintenance will not be #1 priority ...

BESW

I'd go for a Happiness Patrol cluttered and messy aesthetic, probably.

Black Spike

yeah, no rust, just detritus build-up

Shalvenay

12:56 AM

yeah, lots of clutter and sugary, sticky messes

Black Spike

:)

V2Blast

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Black Spike

As I said, the PCs just did a faux H&S inspection. Will start next session with "OMG! How many ways do you want to shut this place down?" :)

Shalvenay

osha.gov/Top_Ten if you want more inspiration XD

and oh yeah, in addition to the lack of guards and rails, flimsy scaffolding would be a must XD

Black Spike

XD

Shalvenay

12:59 AM

@BlackSpike as this would be a very vertical building being on Manhattan

Black Spike

Oh yes. Worse than no rails ... rails that don't work!

Already defined: 2-3 storey building

Shalvenay

ah

Black Spike

still, scaffold-frames. no chace of them falling over ... not even if the PCs chase a Vampire across them

Shalvenay

so not total old-school verticality I reckon, more like a modern "high bay"

Black Spike

low, horizontal production lines.

Shalvenay

1:01 AM

maybe 2 or 3 tiers of conveyoring if it's dense, but yes, low, horizontal production lines

mezzanines in various spots

Black Spike

yeah, that kind of thing

Shalvenay

probably an office wing/annex tucked in somewhere

and yeah, central utilities

you'd have a BIG steam plant, and a BIG chiller

the steam boiler would be gas fired given the location

(either that, or you might be able to justify a high pressure district steam feed from ConEd, given the location, even)

Black Spike

big offices area, kinda seperate, plus local "Logistics manager" hut

Shalvenay

big chiller, either a water chiller or just a compressor plant hooked up to a cooling tower outside

that, and the switchgear room, and that's really about it

Black Spike

Oh, cooling tower/water tower!

Shalvenay

1:04 AM

definitely a cooling tower, don't need an oldschool water tower though

also, it would likely be a sprinklered building

do you have anyone with pyro inclinations in the party?

Black Spike

only as a side-line ....

as with all infrastructure, the fire-retardant systems are Dirty, Used and Broken ...

Shalvenay

yeah, well, just note that real fire sprinklers (save for deluge systems, which wouldn't be fitted here) are basically just a giant plumbing system with funny fixtures :) they'd probably be one of the few things that's rusty, inside and out, as it'd be plumbed all in black iron

Black Spike

(i.e. Work on a GM whim! XD )

Shalvenay

but my bigger point is that fire sprinkler heads are basically self-contained detection-and-actuation systems

it's not like Hollywood at all

Black Spike

cool

heh. What is? :)

Shalvenay

1:07 AM

your pyro hits a head with a firebolt, he'll just set that head off and drench whatever's in the vicinity with 25GPM

or so

(if you want an idea of what it looks like, there are fire sprinkler demo videos up on YT)

(just keep in mind that in a system like yours, the water will have been stagnant for some time, so it will certainly be rusty!)

Black Spike

ugh! :)

Shalvenay

so yeah -- your pyro may wish to think before dumping 25GPM of rusty water on his head XD

Black Spike

that's gonna knock people over, yes? (except for our gene-engineered Monster PC)

certailny make the sugar-caoted floor a little slippy :)

So, here's hoping the PCs don't just BLAM! combat over, 1-2 rounds. They did that last time! :(

Shalvenay

@BlackSpike sounds like you folks will all have a blast XD

Black Spike

I hope so!

Shalvenay

1:14 AM

(although, what's the deal with the vampire, is he like the owner of the place or smth like that?)

Black Spike

Thanks for all the ideas!

Shalvenay

and absolutely no problem, that was really cool

Black Spike

He's rival ganger, set on revenge. being a suger-addict, this is his bolt-hole

Shalvenay

hahaha

I actually have a vampire concept that floats around my head, but it's a pretty weird character all the same

Black Spike

("Vampire" in this setting is actually "super-charged metabolism" ... but needs feeding ...)

But I've stolen the Vampire: masquerade imagery for this gang.

Shalvenay

1:16 AM

@BlackSpike oh XD

hence him being a sugar addict

Black Spike

yup

They also fake their own death ("Rise from the grave")

The PC sugar-addict actually thinks he IS a vampire! (as well as a sugar-addict!). Crosses, garlic, needs an invite, etc

BESW

Varney the Vampire.

Black Spike

Gets a bunch of boosted stats from metabolism, but has missed out on a couple of encounters ... "I can't go i there. They haven't invited me" ... even (Player idea) tried to enter, bounced off the Threshold

Vinnie

Shalvenay

yeah, mine is a blood-drinker, but lives basically off pig blood (close to human, but readily available from the local meatpacker). spends most of his working hours airborne, as a FO flying overnight parcels around in a jet. "Can't you turn into...uh....a vampire bat or something?" "I can, dabbled in batty fun a couple of times, but the payload fraction sucks"

Black Spike

hehe

Shalvenay

1:22 AM

Toreador, sometimes does aerobatics (in a Pitts or the likes) for funsies

Black Spike

Toreadors gonna Toreador! #ArtIsArt

Shalvenay

real all-around niceguy too and rather by-the-book, so if you gave him a D&D alignment, he'd be Lawful Good

Black Spike

I got the chance to explain, in character, to a bunch of n00bs, all the V:tM clans. My Nosferatu (the only 'real' vamp, because I -know- I'm a monster), what all of the other Pretenders were about

LG Toreador? hmmm ...

Shalvenay

part of the art of flying is in smooth, yet crisp precision, after all :)

Black Spike

Toreadors: pretentious artistes. Put ego above pragmatism. Need to be loved, despite being unlovable

Artistic precision? master of your Art?

OK, nice guy, disciplined ... that's got LG tendencies ...

Shalvenay

1:28 AM

hates fire

(especially after having a close call with it once)

Black Spike

I like "sure I can fly myself, but this Contraption increases efficiency"

Had a malkavian "sculptor" once. No prblem with fire. Smoked. Used a welding torch

Shalvenay

heheh

he's kind of the opposite -- his close call was annunciated by a message saying "CARGO SMOKE MAIN DECK"

Black Spike

that's not good ...

Shalvenay

and got to be a very sweaty time in the cockpit for both crewmembers as they diverted into a normally-rather-secretive AFB, basically having to fly by touch on the controls and rely largely on the autopilot due to vision issues in the cockpit

Black Spike

yeah, I can't see "smoke in the cockpit" being helpful

Shalvenay

1:33 AM

(in the story, Tonopah Test Range is where they divert to :) KTNX is on the north edge of the Nellis Range, and is basically second fiddle to only Groom Lake for Air Force "black" stuff)

Black Spike

"We can't go to the 'secret' place"
"We're falling out of the sky .. .give me other options!"
" ..."

Shalvenay

code7700.com/cabin_fire.htm

Black Spike

:)

wish I knew some of these Codes

Did look up some from Aliens (I'm a big fan)

Shalvenay

(7700 is the transponder, or "squawk" code, used to denote an aircraft emergency)

(along with the verbal "MAYDAY MAYDAY" on the radio)

Black Spike

"Coming around for a 7-zero-niner" ... actually means something! who knew? :)

ok, its OMG o'clock. time to log off

thanks for all the ideas!

V2Blast

1:48 AM

@BlackSpike good night!

Shalvenay

hey there @nitsua60

Shalvenay

2:34 AM

hey there @Ben, how're things going?

BESW

3:31 AM

DREAMJAM announced for the month of July.

Hey, @trogdor, I got an answer to the endless endgame of MLWM. Official word from the designer is:

> Really, a group collectively realizing that Endgame is become protracted and threatens the integrity of the story is functional intrusion of social contract. Instead of fearing it, shouldn't we be thrilling to it? Isn't that what narrativism is all about...creating a mechanical basis for a story-focused play gestalt that handles risen concerns with uncommon power?
Why should I doubt that a group won't be able to resolve the situation in a way that satisfies them?

Jul 10 '18 at 22:18, by BESW

It's not broken if you tell the end user to fix it.

trogdor

um

good lord

BESW

> I have this notion [disliking reliance on naked social contract resolutions to prop up system problems is] a gamer thing, and that normal people, well-prepared by the play experience, will output a communally satisfying result when they arrive at the natural ending of the minion stories, like gestalt, pretty much without hardly realizing they were forced to fill in the gaps. Subsequent mental reflection for them will be "that was awesome," not "that really fell apart at the end."

user15026

That feels stupidly pretentious, although I lack context.

BESW

Dear Forge: I thought system mattered?

trogdor

@BESW I,... hate this so much

BESW

3:43 AM

I'd be curious to know what he thinks now, 16 years later.

trogdor

"it's your fault for noticing anything"

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thanks ##%$#%$$#$%

kviiri

10:34 AM

Ciao a tutti

BESW

10:47 AM

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti

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Ben

12:20 PM

Who the f*** is my dnd character

kviiri

@Ben A player actually chose his character to one of our games with that

Shalvenay

12:49 PM

hey there @Ben

Ben

1:26 PM

@kviiri We have a changeling km our party, and he uses this to come up with his identities each time. Haha

Shalvenay

@Ben heheh

Ben

@Shalvenay Hey :) sorry I missed you last night. Was at a friends place

Shalvenay

@Ben ah, no worries, how was it?

Ben

Yeah good, just having a Friday night get together, relax and unwind at the end of the week :)

Shalvenay

cool, want to hop on Discord btw?

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1:31 PM

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Q: Can a character with the Polearm Master feat make an opportunity attack against an invisible creature that enters their reach?

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Ben

I'm actually just about to get into bed, it's 11.30 for me here

Shalvenay

@Ben aah, catch you later then man

Ben

1:41 PM

Yeah :) toodles!

Mage in the Barrel

3:19 PM

I'm making a homebrew race and wanted to make it have two different "factions" for lack of better words, their entire race is either one of those but they share some abilities would that be a subrace or variant?

Shalvenay

@MageintheBarrel subrace makes sense

Mage in the Barrel

when I tried making a subrace it didn't show up in my race's page

using dnd beyond

The ninetails as I'm calling them are either yako or zenko they can't be neither.

Is that still a subrace?

or both*

Shalvenay

3:40 PM

hmmm

I'm not very familiar with DDB so I can't really help you there

Mage in the Barrel

4:02 PM

dnd beyond says that this line of text isn't in the english

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Yako Traits
Spirit conversion
The Yako shun Inari and her teachings thus they cannot use her power to access Little Garden. Instead they restore their beads by gathering life force from the your surroundings. This requires large amounts of concentration so it can only be used during meditation.

Ability Score Increase
Yako though wise enjoy enchanting mortals and thus favor charisma. Your Charisma increases by 2 and your wisdom Increases by 1

call me dumb but I don't see anything that's not in english

yako and inari are fine since i've used them before

vicky_molokh

The placeholder was supposed to be replaced by non-English?

Mage in the Barrel

removing placeholder and replacing it with a description

fixed it

Mark Wells

@trogdor It's distressingly close to "it's your fault for being a bunch of icky nerds."

Mage in the Barrel

5:11 PM

would a passive ot toggle that converted non-magic weapon damage into fire damage be op?

as a racial feat?

Thomas Junk

Wow.

Shalvenay

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

Mage in the Barrel

i'm dumb so I don't know much about the game

Thomas Junk

hello

Mage in the Barrel

hiya!

Thomas Junk

5:14 PM

Perhaps I am better off here without risking downvotes for naive questions :D

Mage in the Barrel

what about something that's identicle for the fire bolt cantrip as an action

Thomas Junk

Does anybody here know of an adventure (system is neglectable) which starts the players killing a god/goddess? I am curious, if there is any. I do not want to buy or play it, I am only interested in having 1 example of it. My thought was: Maybe this would be too much of a disruption for any campaign (world) that no one did this before.

Mage in the Barrel

5e btw

Thomas Junk

I thought, perhaps in the context of forgotten realms there is the possibility of having such an adventure (campaign), but I have no deep knowledge about the published modules.

vicky_molokh

5:53 PM

@ThomasJunk This looks like something that would fit right in in Exalted, but I'm not sure there's any adventure that starts with it. I do think there's at least one vignette or comic in the game line which has the protagonists beat up a god.

Mark Wells

6:11 PM

@vicky_molokh See the 2e Sidereals book :)

Though "god" is a relative term. Exalted has a bazillion gods and killing some of them would not be all that disruptive.

vicky_molokh

@MarkWells Most religions IRL have many gods.

Mark Wells

@vicky_molokh I'm just talking about the suitability of Exalted for Thomas's request. If you expect "killing a god" to be an event with massive repercussions, that could be true in Exalted but it depends very much on which god.

vicky_molokh

@MarkWells If you want to go towards massive repercussions, you view it another way: many lifetimes ago, PCs killed half the demiurges of the setting and imprisoned others. The consequences are still reaching them in their current lives! ^_^

KorvinStarmast

6:37 PM

@BlackSpike "We're falling out of the sky .. .give me other options!" a way begin a game in media res

@Ben Ben, that got a few cackles out of me. Bookmarked! :)

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast eheheheh

Akixkisu

8:03 PM

Should this question be tagged with the GM-techniques tag, if not what tag would be suitable - problem-gm?

Akixkisu

8:19 PM

Gaming-style?

MikeQ

The player was having a problem with the GM, so yes, "problem-gm" would also be appropriate.

Akixkisu

I'm not sure that that truly fits the bill in this case.

But it is currently the most likely tag change that I would make, as the GM-techniques tag seems completely inappropriate for this question.

BESW

8:57 PM

Now I want a gaming-with-style tag.

user15026

9:08 PM

@BESW imagines lots of swishy capes

BESW

@Ash I happen to know that you already wear a swishy cape to our games.

user15026

Correct! :D

BESW

I just wrote this up in a place I'm never going to look again so I want to drop it here where I can find it later.

> Faith Corps is a mashup of Cortex Plus and Fate Accelerated, made for Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors by the people who did Marvel Heroic Roleplay. Faith Corps replaces fate points with a system that has faith dice and demon dice.
Faith dice act like fate points except you can only invoke aspects before you roll and they are never transferred to someone else by invoking that character's aspect.
Demon dice act like fate points except you never need to earn them, you can just always add up to three to any action after the roll, and they go to the GM after they've been spent--and if a dem…

MikeQ

@BESW That first sentence sure has a lot of references

BESW

@MikeQ The more I dig into the world of RPG design the tinier the community of People Who Make Things People Have Heard Of seems.

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