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12:00 AM

Hmm Quietus looks intriguing - would have to be in the right mood to play it.

Ngen Mapu is a new Fate World of Adventure of South American urban fantasy from Felipe Real. (DTRPG; itch.io) Patreon article: "Ngen Mapu is our final Fate World."

BESW

12:11 AM

@RobertF Yeah, our group is very much a "horror is a sometimes game" group, but we do like it occasionally and I'm happy to find games that are entirely unrelated to HPL.

Hot RPG Questions

12:31 AM

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Q: Using a concentration spell on top of another spell from another spell list?

This question was brought up in my intense scheming against a D&D boss my DM created in my off-hours. I'm a druid, so I was thinking of all the broken ways I could use my spells. Then it hit me that I could take feats. Taking the Magic Initiate Feat: Choose a class: bard, cleric, druid, sorce...

linksassin

I have to say I find the irony of this answer entertaining. It goes on and on about other answers ignoring words but ignores one itself.

BESW

@Rubiksmoose I usually sort by activity, but I change the settings regularly.

12:51 AM

4

Q: Can a Flame Blade be used as an improvised weapon?

Flame Blade creates a blade of fire in your free hand: You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a scimitar... Can that blade of fire be used for an improvised weapon attack? Would such an attack benefit from scimitar proficiency? Would it deal 1d4...

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trogdor

1:03 AM

@BESW not creepy at aaaalll

BESW

Museum for Communication - Telephone Sheep

►

Ben

1:28 AM

@MikeQ If you're feeling up to it, I need a profile for a female Inquisitor - non-psyker.

MikeQ

@Ben Need a profile? What do you mean?

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Q: How does Resilient sphere (cast via contingency) interact with an existing Silence spell?

I have a situation in my 5E campaign where the party cast a silence spell to sneak up on a sleeping wizard (super effective). The wizard was then rudely woken and beaten up to the point where his contingency spell of Resilient sphere was triggered. The question is, does the resilient sphere b...

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Ben

So I'm writing up more of a novel fit my dark heresy adventures, from Haddens perspective (the techpriest) he operated under an inquisitor, but I don't remember her name, or anything else about her. Figured, if you were interested, you could create a red sheet for her?

She was a candidate, actually... Not an actual inquisitor

Yet

Only offering as an opportunity to scratch an itch for you lol. Don't have to

Joshua

1:44 AM

Unwise to tangle with Scrooge McDuck in melee.

Ben

1:56 AM

May 23 at 2:40, by Joshua

Somebody just reminded me again. Don't tangle with Scrooge McDuck in melee. His STR stat is insane.

It was you last time too lol

Joshua

facepalm I forgot I did that.

user15026

I dunno, it sounds like pretty good advice to me and worth the repeating

Ben

Lol

@Ash this is true

linksassin

@Joshua If you were unaware of games this statement would be utterly confusing.

Miniman

2:26 AM

@linksassin I love seeing statements like "Again, this is an opinion as credible as any other" in answers. We don't need voting at all, answers can just tell us how good or bad they are.

Joshua

So long as OA is honest about it.

Ugh; somebody actually sacrificed the Hand of Vecna. Complete waste.

Stackstuck

Eh?

That's an option?

And in what?

Joshua

nethackwiki.com/wiki/Lessons_learned_the_hard_way

linksassin

2:55 AM

@Miniman If that worked we should just open all our answers with "This one is the correct answer."

BESW

I'm kiiinda tempted to go in with an answers focus on solutions to the problem being asked about, rather than responding to other answers; please make sure that your answer would be just as coherent if all the other answers went away.

Miniman

@linksassin I mean, some people already do.

Ben

@BESW There's Answering the question; answering the question in conjunction with/addition to an existing answer; and then responding to other answers

As I see it

linksassin

@Ben In this case they are answering the question but do so by repeated pointing out the "errors" in the other answers. I did comment to tell them answers should stand alone not discuss other answers but it isn't a candidate for deletion like your last case.

Ben

3:10 AM

One of those weird edge cases :P

linksassin

@Ben It's a "my answer is right because the others are wrong for these reasons" type answer. Which would be ok, if they were actually correct.

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Q: How to get a character's limb regrown at 3rd level?

I was DMing for my second ever session and decided to roll on the lingering injuries chart. Got a 3 and told the player (who was nearly killed by a group of orcs then and there) that they chopped off his leg and left him there. He made his death saves and stabilized and another player dragged him...

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Joshua

I've written quite a few good answers across stackexchange that were designed to merely cover an aspect not covered by other answers.

linksassin

@Joshua So long as your answer is complete enough to actually answer the question that's fine. If the other answers disappear and your answer were to no longer make sense then it's not a good answer.

Ben

Same. Sometimes an answer merely needs to be explained in another way. It says the exact same thing, just in a different way. E.g: my answer states the facts. The accepted answer says the same thing, in a different way

V2Blast

3:27 AM

@goodguy5 aka Andrew Yang's "Freedom Dividend" :)

V2Blast

4:02 AM

I reopened this question since OP edited to specify the RPG and edition, but users may want to look over it and suggest improvements:

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Q: How could you gain a ritual book for the Ritual Caster feat, narratively?

I wanted to add the Ritual Caster feat to my character. I talked about this with my DM and they said that I would need a way to acquire a ritual book in order to make use of the feat. I suggested that my PC could buy one, but we found out that doing so would let other players buy similar feats. ...

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linksassin

@V2Blast TBH it still feels a little POB/idea generation. I'm not sure which side of the line it sits though.

V2Blast

@linksassin Yeah, that's why I linked it here

linksassin

@V2Blast It's difficult to know how to fix it though. Class and level might help.

linksassin

4:31 AM

@V2Blast This comment aged well... :P

V2Blast

lol

linksassin

I imagine you have a few of them lying around

Ben

5:04 AM

A Servant of the Omnissiah

Ben

5:53 AM

Something for you to read @linksassin :P

linksassin

6:03 AM

@Ben It's interesting. I did give it a skim earlier. Can't say I'm familiar enough with the setting to understand all of it. That's the start of a book from the view of your character?

Ben

@linksassin Yeah. Thought it might be interesting.

Basically techpriests are believers that the machine is the ultimate state of being. Hardcore Vulcans haha

linksassin

I'm considering writing the story of my paladin players arc in my campaign. But it will depend on how things work out.

Ben

At this stage the adventures we had are a few years old, and all I have are the couple of recounts I did, so a lot of it is going to be pure fiction.

Could od the same for yours?

V2Blast

I've never written anything first-person from the perspective of any of my characters

only my session notes which are in third-person

Ben

I like to think about what goes through a character's head in certain situations - how they feel in certain interactions

Miniman

6:20 AM

@Ben Pretty sure you mean heretics. Preeeetty sure.

Ben

@Miniman Who are the Heretics?

linksassin

@V2Blast My current campaign we take turns rewriting session recaps from the view of our characters. The Half-Orc Cleric that can't read or write makes some interesting recaps.

Miniman

@Ben Techpriests. The whole Adeptus Mechanicus, really.

Ben

@Miniman [squints judgingly]

Lol

Miniman

@Ben What's that? You worship something other than the Emperor? The Omnissiah? Oh, that's fascinating, that is. Heretic.

Ben

6:24 AM

There's heretics, hereteks… I think they all just agree that there's worse things out there

linksassin

On an unrelated note; for firefly fans this is the best gorram answer I've ever read

And by Firefly fans I mean everyone. Because if you aren't a fan you just haven't seen it yet.

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Ben

Ain't that the truth

V2Blast

@linksassin Haha, I love it

Hot RPG Questions

6:54 AM

1

Q: What happens to a wizard's magic when they are swallowed by a tarrasque?

I was watching this video about the Tarrasque when I saw that its stomach fluids strip magic. I was wondering if a Wizard is swallowed by a Tarrasque, does the wizard lose his innate magic or is it only for artefacts/magic items?

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BESW

7:06 AM

I loved Firefly when I first saw it.

Now... aside from some really good actors and technicians I think its greatest asset is getting cancelled.

linksassin

@BESW I have a mate that refuses to watch the last 3 episodes because he doesn't want to live in a world where there is no more firefly

@BESW If it hadn't been cancelled it certainly wouldn't have the notoriety it does. I don't think it would have been a bad show for not being cancelled though.

kviiri

I watched most of Firefly during an all-nighter baking spree and only remember a few bits and pieces.

BESW

I've seen what Joss Whedon does to his metanarratives. Firefly not only got notoriety for being cancelled, it escaped the downward cycle of Whedon Syndrome (but see Serenity). So it's only just suffering from fetishising, exotification, Lost Cause apologetics, savagification...

Sure, it turns a good phrase and the actors are great and the team working on lighting and sets did a bang-up job. But it's got almost all the typical Whedon problems plus a few extra thrown in for good measure, and it only escaped his greatest signature TV series flaw by virtue of being cancelled so we can imagine the next seasons not suffering from the same cycle of misery porn all his other shows inevitably devolve into.

Firefly is a cowboy story if you didn't have to feel guilty about killing the Natives and stealing their land, and a Reconstruction story where the hero fought for the South, set in a future full of Asian aesthetics without any Asians.

It was fun popcorn watching the first time but I liked it less on each re-watch, and even less when I learned tidbits about the plans for future seasons which show that Whedon was already laying the seeds for the misery porn, like that Inara would turn out to have a fatal disease.

V2Blast

7:23 AM

I've only watched it once and enjoyed it. But I am aware of some of those problematic aspects in the original. Haven't really looked into the plans for later seasons.

@BESW Out of curiosity, have you watched Marvel's Agents of SHIELD? Joss' name is on it but it's mostly Jed and Mo's show. Wondering what you think of it.

BESW

I enjoyed large portions of the first couple seasons.

It had a shaky start but some good material, but then it seemed like Jed and Mo got into the misery porn stash too.

And, of course, its premise shifted dramatically. Which isn't bad, but it stopped being the show about unpowered trying to find law and order in a powered world, and began being... something else.

trogdor

same

also it was clever the first time they brought Brett Dalton (Grant Ward) back, but every subsequent time was less clever

very rapidly so

BESW

Oh yes, the Rose Tyler Effect.

trogdor

yes except

she was "we are telling you right now she can't come back"

"hey look she's back"

but yes

IE all I'm really saying is she made me more upset, but they both in the end did the same thing really

it's compounded by how they wrote her character into a corner in other ways

but the way he came back wasn't really treated any better I guess

after the first time at least

I guess really,..... I'm frustrated about both of them for the same meta reasons

I couldn't continue to suspend disbelief

also, any amount of being less annoyed when Grant Ward came back was only because at least he wasn't actually Grant Ward when he did

but when they did that a second time it was way less clever

V2Blast

7:41 AM

@BESW Yeah, the show definitely changes dramatically within a few seasons

BESW

I would've been more okay with comic-book staples like Ward coming back over and over, if they'd stuck with their original principle of unpowered people dealing with powered scenarios.

trogdor

@BESW that's fair, we can disagree on that

XD

linksassin

I could never get into Shield because it always felt like they were trying to stuff an entire action movie plot into a 1 hour episode. Things felt rushed or unfinished.

V2Blast

Eh. I enjoyed that the story continually moved along

trogdor

@V2Blast and you are totally allowed to XD

linksassin

7:46 AM

granted I did only watch a few episodes and it didn't grab me so I stopped.

V2Blast

@linksassin Assuming you watched the first few episodes...

linksassin

Too many live play shows to have time for tv anyway

V2Blast

the first half of season 1 is very different from basically the rest of the series

linksassin

@V2Blast Correct, when it first started airing.

@V2Blast I'm happy to believe that and have heard that before. I don't think I'm going to bother going back to watch it though.

V2Blast

@linksassin If anything, they dragged out the plot in that first half (or two-thirds?) of the first season because they had to time it to tie into Captain America: The Winter Soldier

fair enough

I basically watch everything in the MCU

kviiri

7:49 AM

I have only faint recollections of Firefly for large part so I can't really comment on eg. the issues BESW raised, but I feel this inherent skepticism towards works that receive unusual amounts of lauding

linksassin

@V2Blast I've seen most of it except Shield. Only seen some of the Netflix stuff though.

V2Blast

I was pleasantly surprised to see another Indian character introduced in the latest season, even if only as a supporting character

(there were two Indian characters in a past season that played an important part of a story arc)

The show does pretty well in terms of representation :)

(especially compared to most of the MCU which is abysmal at it)

BESW

8:07 AM

I will say, Ming-Na Wen is amazing even when they give her the dumbest stuff to say or do. And I'm not sure anybody except Clark Gregg could have turned a five-word phrase into a multi-season character arc with so little help from the script.

And I really liked Fitz-Simmons until they went all Whedony.

(Would've been much happier if they hadn't gone the obvious romance route there, for one thing.)

trogdor

yyeeaaaahh

all that as well

there was a little more than just the whole Grant Ward thing

V2Blast

@BESW Apparently Jed and Mo based the characters on themselves, from what I've heard. so... yeah.

trogdor

8:22 AM

I would really love to see more stuff with a man and a woman who are friends,... and they don't just end up dating or marrying or wtv

V2Blast

that I agree with

trogdor

you don't need to pair up every man and woman into a romantic pair

V2Blast

BESW

trogdor

you can't

but like

I would love it if they stopped doing some things

I know they won't but I can dream

BESW

8:25 AM

V2Blast

lol

trogdor

all the skin horse

all of it

we will begin the download right aboooooooooout

now

XD

@BESW this is fine,... I mean come on neither of them is even a man OR a woman

BESW

Excuse me, Unity is usually at least 75% upcycled post-woman parts.

trogdor

more than the sum of parts man

way more

XD

BESW

I'm pretty sure Unity considers herself a woman, to the extent that gender is a thing she does.

trogdor

8:29 AM

in fact I would be more focused on the nanite blood,.... stuff that constitutes most of what she actually,..... is

@BESW it's really not the gender thing that applies here

BESW

Seriously though, imagine the great story drama they could've gotten out of Fitz or Simmons dating someone else and the rest of the team worrying that it's going to break up the Fitz-Simmons duo, and the team does all kinds of terrible awkward things that just make things worse because the Fitz-Simmons BFFness was never in trouble in the first place.

trogdor

she wears human parts but I think many would indeed argue that doesn't make you human

@BESW yes, this would have been a fantastic story

BESW

No, but Sweetheart isn't a human either and she's all woman.

trogdor

ok that's fair

but you are kinda nit picking my point pretty hard now XD

at least you can't argue that either of them is a man

BESW

Even when Unity was wearing the corpse of the swamp's husband, she was definitely not a man.

trogdor

8:33 AM

yes

exactly

Ben

10:03 AM

@BESW any lesson that Hollywood provides should be taken with a teaspoon of salt

Maybe a 3/4 teaspoon

There's a question - does CR calculation take into account the PCs ac?

Sdjz

@Ben in what edition?

Ben

I always forget that part haha

My go to is D&D 5e

Sdjz

then according to the calculations from the DMG no, the players aren't really taken into account

BESW

Is PC AC in CR? IDK RTDMG @ ur FLGS.

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Sdjz

"Is Player Character Armor Class in Challenge Rating? I Don't Know Read The Dungeon Master's Guide At your Friendly Local Game Store" did I get it right?

(had to google that last thing)

kviiri

10:13 AM

Is Personal Computer Assassins' Creed in Croatia?

BESW

@Sdjz Yup.

Ben

@BESW I'm on my phone haha. Txt abbrv's take over :P

@V2Blast your comment on my answer about "rephrasing 'uncomfortably warm'"... I don't think I follow?

I can understand if it's clunky, I did sort of just reword it to use the same words without the "you" part

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