@linksassin nah, can't be upset with the results :)
I'm pretty good, today's going to be pretty boring haha. Just going through my timesheets for the last two weeks for work, and working on the Corruption system :)
So far, I see me, @Rubiksmoose, @RedRiderX, @V2Blast, @Glazius, and maybe @BESW interested in playing a Fate (Accelerated?) one-shot. with maybe Glazius, BESW, or me GMing depending on a variety of factors. In my experience the only way to get from "Hmm, yeah that sounds like fun" to a game actually happening would be somebody setting up a time and just seeing who shows up. Glazius, if you're GM ("It's Not My Fault" sounds fun to me) what day/time slots would work for you?
I'm in Eastern Time, I always forget how that goes to GMT. It's 4 hours ahead because of daylight savings? So I'm clear Friday 2100GMT through Sunday 2011GMT, mostly. Still working from home.
for a while i wanted to make something like power2ool and then realised that was just a horribly wrong approach, simulating things in all the right ways but also all the wrong ways at the same time
i.e. simulate a physical tabletop space people pan around, with people with smaller monitors having simply less of a panning view
that design was terrible and leveraged the possibilities of an online platform poorly by simulating facets of the tabletop experience that should not be simulated online for this purpose
I'm thinking of a concept of a spellcaster that can go as a melee character from the moment I re-read the "blades" cantrip (Green-Flame Blade and Booming Blade), and realize that they can deal a lot of damage. Long story short, it turns out that I re-read the Assassin subclass, and think about ho...
@PeterCooperJr. I'm also in EDT. Currently busy Monday night every other week, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons weekly, Friday afternoons every other week, and late Sunday night every week. Free the rest of the time.
So I started DMing before this pandemic and I loved it, however the swap to online has been extremely rough and every session I am extremely stressed out to the point where I lose sleep and am picking up some of my old bad habits.
I want to put the campaign on hiatus, but all the players have p...
Can visual inspection tell the reason a creature is unconscious? Is there a difference between a creature that is sleeping normally, sleeping magically, or unconscious due to dropping to 0 HP? Does a stable creature at 0 HP look or behave different to an unstable one?
This came up in game last n...
@nitsua60 It was the heavy-handed hint when they talked with the woman that gave them the mission. They had let a couple of big monsters go and told her and she commended them.
But i'm going to give them so nice things when they get their long rest. THe pace of this thing is crazy.
and then last night, they (after a few continued to attack) let the Deva go rampaging.
TO be fair, they were trying for awhile, but kept failing the DC 15 check.
@nitsua60 although, to be honest, i like to try and promote personal experience supported answers and call it out for others so was kinda bummed to see it go away.
@NautArch Yeah--I tend to leave things like those around. I figure if a high-rep/notable user is taking a moment to point out something they think voters should consider, it's worth living on. (Esp. when upvoted.)
Hoping for advice:
I'm looking at the next leg of our campaign being a "race for the MacGuffin" scenario. The PCs (Rolemaster) have been chasing an evil sorceress for a while now. I want to let them catch up but put them in a position where they can't actually kill her. She's working for someone...
We have a great FAQ Index for Role-playing Games Stack Exchange but our current process for adding things to that list is a little lacking. Currently users add the faq-proposal tag to their question, then at some point in the future once the post is mature a mod will add the faq tag to it. This g...
@NautArch Ah... that ones on me. Good start hey? 1 flag, 1 mistake. I've now undeleted it, got a little overexcited handling my first flag. My gut said it was useful but my brain went "a +1 comment is a +1 comment" and removed it.
@Medix2 I was debating exactly the same thing. Currently I think if this approach sticks is might be worth it, but not right now.
@linksassin What I've found helpful in those cases is to take a step back and consider it. If you took out the "+1", would the comment still be helpful? If so, then it can stay. If you really object to the +1, you can always edit that out of the comment and let the rest stand.
Like, the only way I can see this ending is that the wizard finally reaches the point where he can cast off his feeble humanity and reveal his true form, and then the Nobuo Uematsu soundtrack starts up and the rest of the party has to fight him, and the whole thing is a metaphor for growing up and losing touch with your family, or for transhumanism, or something.
@NautArch I have Shank2, but haven't played it. A friend recommended it to me as we loved Double Dragon when we were younger.... like... a lot younger.
Okay: watched The Witcher on Netflix. Really liked it. Ripped through first six books in the last couple of weeks, really liked them. (A couple more are on the way.) Curious about the games: is it worth grabbing one? All? Should I just jump in with 3 or go back and start at the first?
@nitsua60 Witcher III is the best of the group. Witcher I was good, but the gameplay is very dated and kinda clunky. Still worth it if you want to play the entire series, though. (Kinda like mass effect). Witcher II is good as well. All three can be played standalone. The open world in III is astounding, and the side quests are fairly seamless as well.
@nitsua60 still haven't seen it :( Also haven't seen season two of lost in space or the last agetns of shield. i'm way behind on tv.
@nitsua60 I didn't play Witcher 1, but started with the franchise with Witcher 2. Really liked it, tried to find all the witcher books I could, and Witcher 3 is the only game i've ever replayed.
@NautArch Dragon age is cool in that if you want to play the last one (Inquisition) you can go into a web interface and set up conditions as if you had played the first ones (This character is alive, that one is dead, I made choice D, etc)
@NautArch I'll always be a lifelong devotee of my ca. 1992 load-out: a Super Soaker 50, three full spare tanks on a bandoleer, and one of those little dollar-at-the-register trigger-pumped pistols in each pocket.
@NautArch I spent... [does math] maybe sixteen summers variously as a camp counselor or waterfront director. It's good to have the old kit stashed in the back of a closet =)
@NautArch Looks battery powered. My experience that battery powered was bad for squirt guns. My super soakers got a lot of abuse and went in and out of lakes and pools.
@nitsua60 The story in the games is told in a strange way. Witcher III is most direct, and the story is closest to what you see in season 1 of the show.
Also Witcher III is just really, really good.
Although Witcher III does often allude to characters and events from the prior games, so if you jump into III without any background info, there will be many moments of "Wait, who is this guy? How does Geralt know them?". Because by WIII, Geralt knows everybody.
Started out with trying to download and compile angband on the dual boot laptop I just installed ubuntu on. Ended with reinstalling Raspbian on my raspberry pu with Plex media server.
I am a DM running a high-level campaign. My group has recently leveled up to 17, and one of the casters has taken True Polymorph. They have stated their intent to turn into the most powerful kind of dragon allowed by the spell, and use it in combat.
I am worried that the martial classes (Paladin &
I'm looking at the next leg of our campaign being a "race for the MacGuffin" scenario. The PCs (Rolemaster) have been chasing an evil sorceress for a while now. She is currently on her own but will have the help of some hired guns by the time the PCs catch up to her. I want to let them catch up b...