complete tangent: I managed to finally introduce "Brian" (NPC) to our game!
Backstory: one of our players has a tale of when he was GMing back-in-the-day, his players went into a bar, and he had some "major" NPCs, but the players kept asking 'who else is here?' .. oh, erm .. Brian? ... "he's not important, is he?" ... "no"
so since then, all of our games have a Major NPC called Brian, or Brienne, or Bry'arn ...
@BlackSpike It's weird when you think about it like that. Or maybe not so weird, actually - Britain got conquered a lot, which means the people in charge were hereditary conquerors, so it makes sense that they went out and conquered stuff themselves.
@Miniman Yeah, we do not consider ourselves a "conquered nation" at all! We had lots of "invaders" (ancient history). But we remember the bit where we went out teaching other nations how to beat us at sports
Lord Brian of Belvedere (Central park, Manhattan, 2080AD). Kind of a zombie ... managed to convimce the players to burn the laboratory that has all of one PC's backstory-secrets in it .. "too dangerous!"
@MikeQ Nah Stevo's just you're average bloke. He does his 9 to 5 then kicks back with a beer in the arvo. Everyone knows Stevo, he's a good bloke and happy to have a yarn every now and then
Of course, I know how "Queensland" came about. It was along the lines of it being the Queen's personal national park. Of course it's also the reason why half the pest flora and fauna species are also protected. Lol
@G.Moylan You may be interested in the later books in the Ender's Game series, which feature an interesting ecology. Some plants and animals at first appear to be symbiotic, when it turns out the plant is just the second half of the animal's life cycle.
"Mum, I've got a bolt of gingham cloth. Can you make a dress?" "erm .. sure ... for you?" "no, for my toy soldier" "oooo kaaay ... not sure if that's better ..."
Greetings everyone. Just popping in for a quick question ... I'm wondering if it's okay to post more than one answer to a question ? My first answer already is the accepted answer but I wanted to rework it and answer it even better ... should I edit my initial answer or make a new one ?
@Catar4 I'm too n00b to answer that. Initial thought is , if answer had been accepted, don't edit it, make a new answer ... BUT: let wiser minds guide you
@Catar4 I agree with all that was said. For comparison, here are a few examples of questions I can think of that I've answered twice: rpg.stackexchange.com/q/69064/23970, rpg.stackexchange.com/q/71888/23970. In both cases I think the answers are substantially different, and merited people being able to vote on them severally. (In the second case it's two different answers, in the first it's the same "answer" explained two substantially-different ways.)
In another 400 or so cases I've edited answers to improve them, rather than re-post.
I'll admit my answer was not different enough to warrant a second answer ... but still it changed the accepted answer substantially since I went deeper into the 'how' it could be done with more precise context.
and different suggestions. Editing the accepted answer felt like I would be cheating or something :P
@Catar4 Eh, I think I know what you mean, and I've been there before. If the TL;DR wouldn't change and you're just fleshing out/explaining better, I wouldn't generally post anew. Sure, you're "changing" the post under the votes: maybe an upvoter liked a concise version and wouldn't once you've expanded it. But I just assume those things live at the level of noise and just trust that me trying my best to provide a useful resource for people will work out in the end.
@CTWind Yeah--it's not super-common, but not unheard-of, either. I like what you did there, putting a pointer in the one answer to the other. I do feel like "this author thinks there's a better/different way to understand this" is a good bit of context to have when reading an answer.
@Shalvenay This Saturday might be rough. I have 3 birthday parties and a bachelor/bachelorette party and a bar crawl. It is going to be a harrowing experience lol
To be entirely fair though the birthday parties and bachelor/ette party are combined into one.
But will likely occupy my evening unfortunately for RPG things
@Shalvenay I feel like every time you ask me I have something very specific conflicting on that day that makes me sound much much more social than I actually am lol
So I have just discovered that the US centric nature of SE sites is more of a problem on other sites than I have seen it here. Asked a question over on money and got a high voted answer that was completely useless because they don't understand the market here.
@Ben Fundamentally the same thing in that situation.
@Shalvenay I specified it, but they openly say in their answer "I don't know the australian used-car market but in the US you can..." and yet got upvotes.
@linksassin I had a question once about repairing RPG peripherals, that got multiple answers which challenged the frame of the question by assuming it would be easier and faster and cheaper to get new bulky items shipped to me than to repair the items I had.
@linksassin I suppose that supports the "other users may find this useful..." knock-on effect of an answer, but it's understandably frustrating and useless for you.
About to stream our D&D 5e actual-play podcast in about 15 minutes: https://www.twitch.tv/events/DvEOfNa8S0yWJPwjmixShQ
In a universe adjacent to our own lies a world known as Runia. This world, once peaceful and idyllic, is now threatened by a monstrous being from its prehistory. A group of adventurers known as Whiskey Company have risen up to do what they can to fight this entity known only as Nagat. They have trekked far across the mortal realms in search of the shards of Barrinoth, the Titan of Justice, in hopes of returning him to his full power.
@Rubiksmoose An even more egregious example was a question that specified the querent had access to Internet only once every week or two, and almost every single answer just couldn't believe it was possible for someone to post a single question on the Stack Exchange without having constant reliable Internet access.
Ghostwalk! D&D 3.x, unique setting where player-character races' spirits don't just fade into the afterlife, they've gotta hike to a specific spot to pass over.
And obviously there's all kinds of non-D&D material like InSpectres and Morts where undead player characters are possible-to-normal.
@MikeQ Yeah, but in Ghostwalk you have to walk from your body to the graveyard and there's only one graveyard in the whole world and you can be ganked again on the way.
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@BESW I don't kbow what I would do with these but I like them so much
I read it as incredulity at what they perceive to be an obvious failure of the combat abstraction which they find completely breaks their suspension of disbelief.
yeah, it seems like a "confirm I have understood the rules correctly" question but the querent is also angry about it because they don't like what they have correctly understood
@V2Blast Oh, that reminded me of a question of mine that got closed because I phrased is as leaning more towards idea-generation than to player-techniques.
I wonder if it's worth a try making a rewrite and asking for a reopen (experience says no because such rewrites tend to be uphill battles; curiosity says maybe).
@vicky_molokh I mean, the worst that'll happen is that it'll get closed, so it's really up to you whether the effort of rewriting it is worth it. I think you could run the rewrite by meta first if you wanted... Though I guess that might just be redundant because at that point you may as well just do the rewrite on mainsite directly...
@V2Blast Yeah, it's mostly a matter of effort and the chance of it providing a reward. I ran a rewrite of another question by meta recently, achieving a reopen only to (a) make the only answerer-candidate no longer able to answer it and (b) have it re-closed almost as fast as the first time. So I guess my expectations of payoff have been lowered.
@V2Blast This was a great question for its time, but I think it should get a historical lock now; there's no problem it's trying to solve. Should I take that to meta, flag it, or...?
@goodguy5 If it were asking that, I might agree. But body text take precedent over title text and the body text is asking for essays on the nature of reward in game design. Guess I should write a meta.
@Carcer We lack a good word for it so I occasionally use "early 2000's" but it's ambiguous as heck
I enjoy linguistic flexibility and would happily use any neologism, were there any non-awkward one in our language, but we don't have anything as convenient as noughties
The License to Kill Years. 1. The group of Years that are known for a "permission to commit murder" 2. The permission that allows one to commit murder on years 3. The range of Years that go from the "License Years" to the "Kill Years" 4. The group of Years that are known for their range of "License" to "Kill" 5. A range that is a subset of a sequence in which "The License" and "Kill years" are elements
"Do role-playing games have to be fun?" was a nice question in the early days of the site, very typical of early-beta-site questions generally. Then it went quiet for five years until a (totally reasonable) tag edit brought it back to the surface today and I got a chance to look again.
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@Carcer Hm, I wonder if French has shorter form names for the decades, but if they're just "Années <year exactly as otherwise>" I guess French might win
I don't attribute any malfeasance on the part of whoever organised the fundraiser but at the moment it's just raising money to no properly defined end or purpose.
Though I'm not surprised. KyoAni are well-loved and this is honestly quite shocking
@NautArch it would be pretty foolish for Sentai Filmworks to just try and pocket the money - people would immediately know, and they are not a Mr Nobody that can just hope to disappear and never been heard of again. That said, it is pretty evident that the money can only hope to help buying back lost infrastructure and hardware - won't bring back anyone who died in the fire.
@NautArch I'm cynical in a different way, I just have a problem with everyone using microfunding platforms such as gofundme for anything they don't have the $$ for. A tragedy such as this is slightly different, but there is a limited amount of $$ that I have to apportion, and it's pretty much already spoken for.
Lentokenttä just means airport though, but I guess it's also the proper noun for the district of Vantaa that has the Helsinki airport (yes, it's not in Helsinki!)
@JohnP It's also unclear that they need the money. I mean, odds are KyoAni has insurance. More money is also good, but they should get some insurance reimbursement.
@NautArch There are conceivably good purposes you can put that money to. KyoAni is probably insured for the property damage but it's less likely that everyone who died has life insurance and this could mean considerable financial hardship for the families of those who died
@Carcer True, but doesn't mean that's where the money goes (especially if they don't say that.) If this was specifically creating a fund to help those families (like the 9/11 funds), then that's another thing. But now we're making assumptions about where the money goes.
I'll just go ahead and change my name to Debbie Downer.
like Dungeons and Dragons being a parent to dnd-5E
ah ok
hmm. I'm trying to figure out the real purpose of the warhammer tag. it has no wiki, but I can find a meta from about a year ago asking fi ti should be deleted
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