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12:56 AM

@NautArch oof.

@KorvinStarmast Are they related to Urkel?

1:08 AM

I downloaded and started Baldurs gate I and II... I had forgotten how clunky the interface was (Which as pretty good for the time, but compared to modern zomg it's bad)

Shalvenay

@JohnP eheheh. is NWN player in 2019, knows that feeling all too well

JohnP

hahaha! I bet! How you been?

Shalvenay

@JohnP alright here save for being slightly under the weather

JohnP

Everyone but the astronauts are under the weather, technically. And i suppose there is weather of a sort in space too. :p

I'm on yet another 5-midnight meeting. 4th this week, be glad when the failover testing is done and I can go back to a normal shedule.

KorvinStarmast

1:24 AM

@JohnP Yikes, John, that stinks

@V2Blast yeah, and to Angela Merkel, but she won't acknowledge them! (tee hee)

JohnP

Well, the alternative for the first 3 days for the PI planning was a flight to INdia for a 3 day session, so I'm ok with those. This one is we are testing the failover between data centers. On this call I am a dunsel.

Shalvenay

hey there btw @KorvinStarmast

KorvinStarmast

1:37 AM

hullo, new hearthstone deck, experimenting. woot

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast a bit under the weather, sadly, but otherwise alright

Miniman

1:55 AM

@Shalvenay Except the NWN interface is amazing, and a lot of modern games should learn from it. (Especially NWN2, not that it would count as a modern game anymore.)

Shalvenay

@Miniman eh, some things are OK (like radial menus), some things aren't (like the inventory system!)

JohnP

@KorvinStarmast what is a hearthstone deck? MtG variant?

Miniman

@Shalvenay That's fair, I wasn't thinking about the inventory.

But seriously, if you think radial menus are only okay, you need to play more RPGs and see the kind of crap other games foist on you.

Of course, a lot of them are made to work on consoles, which is roughly equivalent to shooting yourself in the chest when it comes to UI design.

Shalvenay

@Miniman that is very, very true

I think my experience with EVE spoiled me rotten with regards to inventory systems, though

V2Blast

2:52 AM

@JohnP Yeah... I tried Baldur's Gate 1 a little while back, but the remasters don't make the mechanics/interface any less jarring.

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Is "lasts until dispelled" a duration?

Some spells, like true polymorph, has language that says (emphasis mine) If you concentrate on this spell for the full duration, the spell lasts until it is dispelled. This seems to suggest that the duration is over and the spell simply lasts until dispelled. If you are looking at the rule...

Ben

Ok, quick question for anyone with knowledge of the 40k universe - does a "Psychic Surge" = "Warp Touched"?

trogdor

All I know is, Heresy

XD

But that's not helpful

That's not really true, I do know some other things but I definitely have no grasp of how any warp stuff actually works

I'm far from an expert

Ben

3:11 AM

Oh, you've got the right mindset at least.

That's pretty much how it is. "Boss I found another warp-touched!"
"What are you telling me for? Burn it and be done with it!"

"Boss, I found a Heretic"
"OMG DEPLOY ALL UNITS WE MUST REMOVE THEIR EXISTENCE FROM EVERYTHING!"

trogdor

They are more scared of heretics than warp touched?

I always figured the warp was the scariest thing in a universe of scary things

Ben

It is a bit... warped.

trogdor

3:29 AM

Lol

Miniman

@Ben Do you mean, like, is anything in the vicinity of a psychic phenomena or perils of the warp event automatically warp touched?

Ben

@Miniman Perils of the Warp

Miniman

Because by my understanding, warp touched is a lot more fundamental than that - closer to "grew up on a daemon world" level than "had warp stuff happen nearby one time" level.

Ben

Yeah

The reason I ask is because of this answer

scifi.stackexchange.com/a/224228?noredirect=1

He's basically saying "Oh, the psyker died for a psychic surge, which triggered the Warp Perils, so now he's warp touched!"

Miniman

The problem is, of course, that a) neither of those answers cite sources at all, and b) wh40k has an enormous volume of wildly inconsistent material that can support most points of view

trogdor

3:39 AM

Yeah I was about to mention

In my admittedly very limited understanding, the property of WH40K has gotten so big and at times contradictory that I assume you could find basis for pretty much anything you want

Miniman

But anyway, my read of your question is that it's not really about "warp touched" as such, more like "how much is this thing going to glow to someone with psyniscience".

To which my answer would be "probably not none, probably not a lot either".

Ben

@Miniman Yeah. In all honesty that's kinda what I was thinking.

Miniman

With a side of "the psyniscience rules need about 100x more detail to be able to answer this question".

Ben

I basically want it to be a situation of that one guy, in a random situation be like "Uhh... Your Servo Skull has a psychic signature?"

Like, just barely blipping on the scale, doesn't need to be much

KorvinStarmast

4:04 AM

@JohnP hearthstone is a game by blizzard that is a collectible card game, a bit like "MtG light" ... but there are some serious tournaments. On line only.

Hot RPG Questions

4:42 AM

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Q: Would a level 18+ Champion Fighter recover HP outside of combat?

At level 18 a fighter with the champion archetype gains the survivor ability which lets them recover HP at the start of each turn provided they have more than 0 HP: Survivor At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain H...

dnd-5e class-feature healing

AncientSwordRage

11:37 AM

ahoy hoy

Someone_Evil

Hi

AncientSwordRage

\o

Someone_Evil

Anything special which brings you over to our little corner?

AncientSwordRage

I added a tag to a question

was wondering if it was a good idea

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Q: Simulating these special dice on more regular dice

So I've got a game that uses special dice for its resolution. Basically when making an opposed check, each side rolls a bunch of them based on the relevant trait, and whoever rolls most points wins. The margin by which you win matters for resolution, usually. But I'd like to simulate the resolut...

dice statistics kids

Someone_Evil

I don't think so. The question is about simulating the dice. The reason is to let new players play, who happen to be kids. That doesn't make the question about kids, nor is that question relevant to kids

AncientSwordRage

11:46 AM

@Someone_Evil Seemed like it was relevant to the question and at least why one of the answers is doing well

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage 1) AFAIK tags should describe the question, not the answers and 2) which answer are you thinking of?

AncientSwordRage

12:04 PM

@Someone_Evil Reading just the question - the kids part seems not as relevant, but considering one of the better answers is around explaining to kids, it seemed more relevant

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A: Simulating these special dice on more regular dice

Look at the pips a certain way Tell your kids that the pips on the dice represent where you hit. A pip in the center means that you hit on-target, a pip on the sides means that you missed. As special rules if you miss 6 times then you get tired, so that can cancel out another hit, and if you o...

(thats an answer link)

theres not a 'teaching-how-to-play' tag or a 'explaining-rules' tag otherwise that might fit better

Someone_Evil

I still don't think the kids tag is relevant. The fact that it is played by their children only came up because as background info on the system. Rereading the question, I'm not sure they are asking for ways to emulate the dice for use by children. It's perfectly possible the system was designed for their children, and now they want to try it with their adult friends.

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil should we edit the 'played by my children' bit out of the question?

Someone_Evil

There's no reason to. It helps explain (by justification) part of the system which (might) be needed to answer the question, but it does not define the topic of the question

@AncientSwordRage FWIW we have system-introduction and gm-techniques which cover a lot of that.

Neither of those are applicable to this question

AncientSwordRage

12:23 PM

@Someone_Evil I agree

it just seemed like part of the question was 'how do I make the replacement dice make sense to someone?'

because the dice they want to replace have six values ([-1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2]), so can map to a d6 almost trivially

Someone_Evil

I think it is more: what is a good replacement dice for this? (easier makes for a better answer)

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil is it not trivially a d6?

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage Yes ( I meant that for what the question was)

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil Yes

Someone_Evil

They have received the 'map to a d6' in several variants. Meaning it's not quite so trivial (different mappings have different advantages)

AncientSwordRage

12:29 PM

@Someone_Evil but they're asking for dice, not how to map a dice. I guess it comes down to semantics

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage Mapping a cubic (non-d6) die to a d6 is one way of emulating that special die.

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil ok, but then what makes a good mapping? One that's easy to understand

I guess I felt that 'understandable by kids' was a good metric for that

Someone_Evil

If the querent is specifically looking for something that works better with children, they need to add that to their question, and a lot of answers needs to add more support. What works well with children is subjective

@AncientSwordRage What is easy to understand will vary with who you are/how you think.

There's arguably also speed of use. Something can be easy to understand, but slow in practice.

KorvinStarmast

1:59 PM

@AncientSwordRage If you can teach something to kids, you can usually teach it to adults.

@AncientSwordRage Or there may be a bit of x-y problem in the question

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast Agreed..I couldn't find/think of a teaching type tag

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