TRPG General Chat

Rubiksmoose

00:08

So many pinned posts!

V2Blast

@Rubiksmoose Some of the election stuff can probably be consolidated. And not sure what @NautArch thinks but we could probably unpin the DDB content-sharing campaign invite for the moment, since it's not really time-sensitive

I'd suggest including the link to the questionnaire in the "self-nominations are open" message

linksassin

@V2Blast Perhaps just a pin to the main meta post and the election chat room where all the other links are consolidated anyway.

goodguy5

@KorvinStarmast XD

I'm not sure why I was called out, but I appreciated it

Shalvenay

hey there @linksassin, how're things going?

linksassin

@Shalvenay G'day. Not too bad. Yourself?

Shalvenay

00:19

@linksassin alright here

linksassin

@Shalvenay You might like to know I took some inspiration from the solo games you run in the Backroom occasionally. I ran one for one of my players to fill out some backstory details and it went really well.

A. B.

Anyone for a quick game of chess? Or anything?

Shalvenay

00:36

@linksassin ah, that's good to hear :) what system and what sort of story? :)

Joshua

Oh hey A.B. I like chess but I haven't got a working online player right now

linksassin

That main game is pathfinder and it was the backstory for my Gnome Oracle player. She's a fey foundling and we just played through some of the key parts of her backstory.

I like the one on one play. I think I'm going to try to to more of it.

Particularly since Matt Colville's video on it.

Ben

~wave~

Joshua

Maybe one of these days I'll set up a dungeon with half a dozen exotic traps and see who wants to run it

that is, try to run through it

mostly embedded puzzles

Ben

I saw "p" and "zz" and read it as "embedded pizzas"

Someone_Evil

00:41

@Ben My kind of dungeon!

Ben

Look out for the triple cheese... That will swallow you whole

And the pepperoni is deceptively hot

Shalvenay

@linksassin ah :)

Joshua

Unfortunately "the hovering vase" was designed for high level players.

A. B.

@Joshua Sounds like fun, with or without embedded pizza :-D
How do you mean, not a working player? I know one site https://lichess.org/P6EDP4NC but maybe it doesn't work on your machine, is that what you mean?

Ben

@linksassin I did that for a player. It was pretty fun :D

A lot more story telling

Joshua

00:46

Yeah, lichess is broken for me due to bad ADA support

Ben

Not sure about the veg, but I can definitely agree with Mac n cheese XD

A. B.

@Joshua Ah, blast. Amazing how many things can go wrong with a modern website.

@Ben :-D

V2Blast

@Ben calling veggie pizza evil is just slander by meat-eaters

pineapple on pizza is the truly divisive one

I assume pineapple as a topping is why pizza alignment questions are no longer allowed

Someone_Evil

I find aligning pizzas to the horizontal plane most useful, but maybe that's just me

Joshua

01:02

I find aligning pizzas to the stomach most desirable.

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Ben

@V2Blast Yeah. This was one of the first I found, and I agree with you there

I'd probably put it at Chaotic Good, or lawful neutral

Capricosa is always the iffy one for me... I can never guess just how strong the tomato flavour is going to be

V2Blast

01:34

@Ben I had to google that one

Pizza capricciosa

Pizza capricciosa (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpittsa kapritˈtʃoːza]) is a style of pizza in Italian cuisine prepared with mozzarella cheese, Italian baked ham, mushroom, artichoke and tomato. Types of edible mushrooms used may include cremini (white mushrooms) and others. Some versions may also use prosciutto (a dry-cured ham), marinated artichoke hearts, olive oil, olives, basil leaves, and egg. Some versions may be prepared using a thin crust. Although it has similar ingredients as pizza quattro stagioni, they are arranged differently. == See also == List of pizza varieties by country Food portal...

Ben

I mean, I really enjoy it - simplistic, and strong flavours, but you can never quite trust the tomato.

V2Blast

I've never had it, but then I'm vegetarian and apparently it includes ham :P

Ben

There is a vegetarian style similar to it... but this one does go well without the meat toppings :)

I also like to add olives

BESW

Nobody seems to even be considering all the non-tomato-sauce pizza options.

Pesto sauce pizza, mmm.

KorvinStarmast

@goodguy5 I thought that it would amuse you. :)

Ben

01:42

@BESW Yes

I love doing that on home made pizzas.

BESW

I never have sufficient ingredients to make enough pesto for a whole pizza at home, unfortunately.

Ben

@BESW Same. that's why we use pita bread, make mini pizzas. not only then do you not have the issue of not enough pesto sauce, but it also allows you to get creative.

BESW

Clever!

Ben

Once we had a family "design your own" pizza night, and dad added cashews.

KorvinStarmast

@Ben My wife agrees with you on pita bread pizzas. For those reasons you mention and more.

Ben

01:46

It actually worked well. I can't remember the rest of the toppings though

BESW

Whole wheat crust with extra-garlicky pesto sauce, mozzarella, parmesan, bell peppers, mushrooms, red onions, spinach, topped with chili pepper flakes... maybe some bacon if I'm feeling it.

Ben

@BESW meat as an optional garnish is what makes a good pizza :D

BESW

I feel like "optional garnish" is generally the best use for meat.

cf fried rice.

Ben

The fact that it doesn't need it is what I like about properly made pizzas

Joshua

I actually do have the first three puzzles ready for playtesting but there's no narrative thread so it's going to feel weird.

Ben

01:51

@KorvinStarmast My mum came up with the idea for our family, not sure if she got the inspiration from somewhere else. they work really well though :D

@Joshua first three pizzas* ready for play-tasting* :P

Joshua

Ok it's a pretty good joke but I don't know how to respond to that

Ben

Haha

Maybe half to make it an exercise course, just to balance it out?

nitsua60

02:10

I'm going to be shameless for a second:

It's desirable that the answers that eventually come to this question all stay at the same score. (Early answers will get early upvotes which snowball, later on as the election comes there's tail-off in how many voters read through all the answers, and there's no particular reason to suppose that's a signal we want reflected in the eventual votes.) Please don't vote on answers you like/dislike, and please do use your votes to level out any imbalances you see arise. Thank you! — nitsua60 ♦ 50 secs ago

^^ could use some upvotes to make sure that it stays prominent and catches readers' eyes.

Thanks =)

Adeptus

02:53

@V2Blast Most pizza places here don't do artichoke on capricciosa. Just mushroom, some type of meat (ham, prosciutto, salami, or pepperoni), and maybe tomato or capsicum.

One of my favourites is what a local chain calls "dangerous mushroom" - mushrooms with garlic & herbs. With the usual tomato paste & cheese.

Ben

@Adeptus colour me intrigued

BESW

@Adeptus That doesn't sound very dangerous. Unless they're using garlic the way I do.

...or if one of the herbs is cilantro. [shudder]

Adeptus

@Ben it's from Australia's Pizza House, if you have one near you

Ben

@BESW "mixed mushrooms and herbs"... the specifics are not divulged

@Adeptus I'm up in NQ, so unfortunately not

Adeptus

@Ben 11 secret herbs and mushrooms?

Ben

03:50

Welp... submission for mod has been posted

BESW

04:28

@Ben I don't see you listed, just your Q&A post.

Ben

..whoops

Ok, I've reverted my Q&A post for the time being.

Just to make sure I'm doing it right lol

V2Blast

@Ben I think it should just be a matter of nomination, and then you can link your questionnaire responses from your nomination post (or in a comment on it). See the previous election for an example :)

V2Blast

04:58

@BESW minus the bacon, that sounds delicious. :D

@Adeptus oooooh

BESW

@V2Blast It is! It's what I get at the choose-your-own-toppings pizza chain here.

V2Blast

I haven't had pizza in ages

BESW

The only danger is that if you let them put too much of the veggies on, especially the mushrooms and bell peppers, it gets really soggy.

V2Blast

makes sense

Ben

05:17

@BESW I worked in a pizza joint (one of the chains) for about 6 months. One option for your pizza was to get "double toppings".

BESW

@Ben cf "raw dough"

Ben

Then they came out with a seafood range, and one pizza in particular was so bad that we had to specifically state that we would not allow this.

It was so thick with toppings, that even after 2 runs through the oven, it still would not be cooked properly.

BESW

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Q: Can I use the Samurai fighter's Fighting Spirit feature to make a Sneak Attack if I am also multiclassed into rogue?

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Ben

@BESW borrowing this.

...indefinitely

kviiri

08:00

@Ben Regarding your bardic inspiration question, that's actually not too far off from how bardic songs work in... some system I've at least read

13th Age at least has Bardic songs that have a continuous effect but I can't remember off the top of my head whether they're usually numeric buffs, debuffs or something else.

Also, happy to see you're running. (it's good exercise, haha :D)

Miniman

It's how they worked in D&D 3.5e - which is to say, it's what 5e changed it from.

(I'm not saying it was a good change, but it's worth considering that this was how it worked, and they made the decision to change it.)

kviiri

4e also didn't have songs as distinct from any spells by what I recall

LizWeir

I think 4e had a fair number of "until the end of the encounter, [nearby allies] gain [benefit]" powers

kviiri

13th Age has actually three distinct things for bards: battle cries, spells and songs. Songs are continuous, spells are what you'd expect and battle cries [can] trigger when making melee attacks.

Songs have a "sustain" effect that continues as long as the bard succeeds in maintaining it, and a "Final Stanza" effect that's a larger boost and happens when the song ends. A bard can sing while casting spells and fighting, which is kinda neat.

LizWeir

of course the big difference between a 13th Age or 4e song and a replacement for Bardic Inspiration in 5 is that 13A and 4e have them as individual powers, so they can be designed for a specific use - "song of healing" and "song of stabbing my enemies better"

which means less wide implications to think through

and is making me wonder what 5e spells could be flavoured as Bard songs! Crusader's Mantle is my first thought because Crusader's Mantle is always my first thought.

BESW