TRPG General Chat

1:36 AM

Jul 12 at 22:29, by BESW

Jay Dragon released a free playkit of Wanderhome in anticipation of its August 4th Kickstarter. 25 pages complete with everything you need to get started imagining the world of Hæth!

user15026

oh yeah you told me about this before and I forgot didn't I

I don't think I ever specifically told you?

user15026

Okay

user15026

I think I saw it in passing maybe then

user15026

Oh yes no I remember you told me about the social scripts

1:38 AM

I think you would like to be a Moth-Tender.

user15026

Reading about the seasons is like a hug

Oh yes, using social scripts as ~~safety~~ journeying tools is SO GOOD.

user15026

MOTH TENDERS DEAL WITH SMALL PACKAGES

user15026

Im in

user15026

Im so in

user15026

1:41 AM

....one of their "always can do" things is fidgeting

user15026

what

user15026

I just

user15026

I like that one of the ragamuffin things you can have is "dress that spins good"

user15026

THE SHEPHERD IS A HERDER OF BEES

user15026

....sorry but this game is just

user15026

1:43 AM

I can't

user15026

sorry I'm just handflap happy

Some things you can always do:
- Pat a bumble on its head

user15026

yes all the bumble heads pats yes

user15026

Gosh. I never really back RPGS because I wouldn't have anyone to play with but I reaaaaally wanna back this one just even to build the world in my head

Shalvenay

@BESW awwww tosses @BESW a plushiebee!

user15026

1:51 AM

ahem thank you, room, for letting me be gleeful joy over Wanderhome.

[shares glee]

Did you see that the Ragamuffin has a Can Always Do of acquiring a hyperfocus?

user15026

@BESW noooooo omg

> Some things you can always do:
- Get really invested in a new interest
- Ask: "Do you wanna see something really cool?" They get a token if they say yes.

user15026

oh my goodness

user15026

that's hyperfocus

user15026

1:58 AM

in a gaaaame

Also
- Get distracted

@Ash Jay Dragon's games are so good at seeing people.

user15026

@BESW I don't know if I know anything else they have done but this is very yes

May 5 at 22:41, by BESW

"Rusted Swords & Nice Boys: Gender in Sleepaway" (article by Brie Beau Sheldon for Thoughty, about Jay Dragon's game Sleepaway about horror, dreams, and summer camp)

user15026

@BESW OH YES THAT ONE

Sleepaway is too intense for me to be likely to ever play, and draws on experiences I don't have access to.

But Wanderhome is soft and prickly in just the right ways?

user15026

2:11 AM

Yes

user15026

It's like the worlds I build in my head when I can't sleep

Also they very neatly drew a line through a lot of the "food chain" problems in animal-folk stories, by making the buggy creatures the non-people.

I appreciate that.

user15026

Yes!

And I'm getting more and more appreciative of no-dice games.

You may also like this if you haven't read it yet:

3 hours ago, by BESW

Jay Dragon wrote a twitter thread about "why I never say you're telling a story once, in all of Wanderhome."

user15026

@BESW "Additionally, there's a lot of story games about traveling to places & fixing their problems. Some even in the same loose genre as Wanderhome! But random guests rarely know how to solve systemic problems in places they're only in for a brief moment." omg yes

2:27 AM

Yes, thank you.

Now I'm thinking about whether Wanderhome would mash up well with Space Is A Sea philosophies.

user15026

Space is a Sea?

I'm not gonna link it here anymore because the creator seems to be having some... struggles... with crediting their collaborators, so check your DMs.

user15026

@BESW ah, okay

But since I am one of those collaborators for that project, I'll say that the salient point for this conversation is that Space Is A Sea is rooted in thinking of travel as "visiting" rather than "exploring."

user15026

yes, I see that note, that makes sense

2:38 AM

I think it doesn't go far enough, honestly, but the ideas in the text are probably radical departures for many gamers.

user15026

very much so

@BESW OMG XD

that's basically me

XD

Q: Do familiars get death saving throws?

@trogdor Read Wanderhome!

user15026

Yes! Do! You will like it I think.

Axoren

That feel when we get a Wish from a Genie and we all decide the best use of it is resistance to the damage the Artificer does.

I feel like it was just a free pass for him to hit us with Lightning Bolt, but also he does that a lot.

Hot RPG Questions

2:52 AM

6

Do familiars summoned by the Find Familiar spell get to utilize Death Saving Throws, or do they die immediately when they reach 0 hit points?

I once made a sorcerer who learned nothing but AoE unfriendly fire spells, took features that gave him bonuses when he took damage, and a little bit of fire resist to blunt the pain. Main strategy: run into the middle of the enemy troops and fireball himself repeatedly.

Axoren

So, one thing that confuses me about AoE spells and some of the wording in the 5e book

Is that I think if you're in your own AoE, you can choose not to affect yourself.

Only one?

Axoren

One of many.

I've always erred on the side of "I probably still hit myself."

But there's a sentence in the book that says the following: "If you are in the area of effect of a spell you cast, you can target yourself."

It makes it sound like it's optional.

I guess that's exclusive to Targeting, which Fireball doesn't do

@BESW where do I read it?

3:02 AM

Jul 12 at 22:29, by BESW

Jay Dragon released a free playkit of Wanderhome in anticipation of its August 4th Kickstarter. 25 pages complete with everything you need to get started imagining the world of Hæth!

ah ok

HellSaint

3:22 AM

btw how is the situation with the protection stuff? @Rubiksmoose @Someone_Evil

I went ahead and protected this question because, well, we have 2 deleted bad answers and another just arrived... And seems like one question many people would parachute in our site when googling or something.

Rubiksmoose

@HellSaint hoping to get a Meta discussion going within the next couple of days. But I think people shouldn't wait on that to protect issues as they see them come up

GcL

@Rubiksmoose I think how many get protected for new issues arising answers the question, "how many of the unprotected questions do people find needing protection again?"

Probably more accurate to ask about the estimated rate of re-protection for now unprotected questions.

Also, can then ask, what are the similarities between questions that were deemed to require re-protection? and can those be used to discern a class of questions for which ongoing protection is recommended versus a class of questions for which temporary protection is sufficient.

@Ash @BESW wow this is really good stuff

@trogdor Cooooozy Gaaaaames.

HellSaint

My criteria in this case was quite simple: the question already has an accepted, well upvoted answer, I read the answers and I doubt there is anything good to add to the discussion, and there are 2 deleted bad answers (one from a 1 rep user, another from a deleted user, so idk what was their rep) and got 1 new bad anser from 1 rep user. Seems a perfect candidate :P

3:37 AM

@BESW yeeesssssssss

extremely up for that

Rubiksmoose

@GcL definitely

user15026

@trogdor saaaame

I really like the Ragamuffin and the vagabond

Rubiksmoose

@HellSaint I think that might be our first reprotection of this batch! It looks good though.

3:52 AM

@trogdor I think I'd like trying to be a Shepherd. And I would totally model them after Shep of Dogskull Patch.

Who was that?

Shep is the enby ex-soldier who keeps goats and sheep and oxen on Ursula Vernon's land.

(Said land is called Dogskull Patch, on account of what she originally found a lot of while clearing it.)

@trogdor "Shep, of course, is always thrilled to hold a sheep."

Ooooh

That shep

@Ash Did you see that every Wanderhome playbook has the Journey Tools listed out?

Q: Supercomputers around the world!

I only know them as shep and everything else you said just confused me XD

Nike Dattani

4:06 AM

Might be of interest, does anyone play games on supercomputers?

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For a matter modelling person, the most valuable resource is computing power. For many of us, computing power at hand limits the scale of problems we can solve. There are many national supercomputing facilities for academics. What are the resources available in each country?

high-performance-computing one-topic-per-answer

user15026

@BESW I love this plan

user15026

@BESW yes, I liked that. Then you can't forget them!

@NikeDattani Hi! While some of us do play computer-program RPGs, this is a chat focused on tabletop RPGs which don't require dedicated computer tools, instead defaulting to physical tools like pencil, paper, dice, cards, maps, and minis, to organize and track the game.

Nike Dattani

Oh so that's what TR stands for in RPG?

Table Role?

Tabletop, yeah. Sometimes it's abbreviated TTRPG, for TableTop Role Playing Games.

Nike Dattani

4:09 AM

I see. I was familiar with the acronym RPG

Not with TRPG

So is "wing murderer" a TRBG?

Or "warewolf" ?

Haven't heard of the first one. The edges of TRPG tend to blur with things people call party games on one side, and board games on another. Werewolf-style games usually get lumped into the "party games" category, I think.

Ben

4:28 AM

Ascending_Hello.wav

5:31 AM

Upcoming Kickstarter: Preparing for Paris: a Tabletop Roleplaying Game by Logan Timmins. Play a personified sport in American high school. Can you win your way to Olympic glory?

Lily_Potter_1234l

5:53 AM

Hello

[wave] Hi!

Q: Does Eldritch Blast travel in a straight line?

8:35 AM

hello \oo//

Hot RPG Questions

10:04 AM

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My DM and I have researched this at length and we can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Eldritch Blast states: A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage. What we are unsure of i...

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10:17 AM

@HotRPGQuestions vtc-focus

Asking multiple questions

hey @doppelgreener

doppelgreener

howdy!

how's it going?

need more coffee, then I can start work

on sci-fi, someone does a blog and part of that is recognising good questions from the last quarter

would such a thing be of interest here?

maybe with a focus of DnD and non-dnd Qs?

Trish

10:33 AM

@AncientSwordRage huh?

@Trish The questions in that Hot Q are "Does EB travel in a straight line" and "Can my familiar help me avoid cover"?

current answers go with the title Q, but it's still not quite focused

11:14 AM

@AncientSwordRage I agree with you. Unfortunately I don't think its so egregious to be hit with the mod hammer so I left that comment and let the community decide. Looks like it will be staying open for now.

@linksassin that's fair

12:00 PM

@linksassin is it a good question to ask for a list of all spells that are affected by Spell Sniper?

@AncientSwordRage I'd say it's probably too broad. It's really asking for all spells with an attack roll

Q: Interaction between Subtle Spell, Initiative and Alert Feat

@linksassin I have questions about things like Magic Stone, but I know I'm going to find other edge cases

Hot RPG Questions

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I'm running a game and I'm trying to gank a few of my players with an NPC Sorcerer with Subtle Metamagic. However, one of the players has the Alert feat which states he cannot be surprised. Can I cast a subtle hold person with the sorcerer without any interference from the player with the Alert f...

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so rather than ask lots of disparate questions, it made sense to me to put them in one question

some of them are obvious, but not all of them

@AncientSwordRage If you feel there are particular edge cases that aren't clear you can ask about those. But the general rule is just "does it require an attack roll? if so it works with spell sniper"

12:05 PM

@linksassin cool

BTW here's the list of spells that require an attack roll

@linksassin Yup, I saw that

But I'm guessing spell sniper doesn't effect, say Faithful Hound

Or Steelwind Strike

is dndbeyond working for you gys?

@AncientSwordRage Im in the stackizen campaign but I cant access the phb on dndbeyond

@ThomasMarkov I can see it

my sub expired, thats the problem

12:12 PM

weird, I don't have a subscription

i had too many characters for a non-sub

so it locked me out of some features till i fixed it

ah

@AncientSwordRage Well I guess technically this is a better list

Range can only be doubled if it has a range

12:27 PM

@linksassin ahh much better

thanks

far fewer outliers than I initially thought

in fact basically 0 outliers

@AncientSwordRage The wording of the feat doesn't specify ranged or melee spell attack. Because there can be spells that require a melee spell attack and also have range. Thorn Whip for instance.

Steel Wind Strike is an interesting one

I think it technically should work for that.

@linksassin interesting

12:42 PM

seems like it.

in that case what other spells are covered by that