TRPG General Chat

KorvinStarmast

01:51

@Shalvenay arrgh, got dragged into an "office meeting" that took place off site. Not braining right now. I'll check in with you on Friday? Hopefully?

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast may be a bit later on Friday due to errands, I guess

Bardic Wizard

02:31

Anyone know a solo rpg involving stabbing things? It’s been a DAY

And I still have homework

Joel Harmon

@BardicWizard There's a larp called G.Y.M. that I've found to be effective stress relief in the past, but that's been less of an option for me recently.

Bardic Wizard

I’m not surprised. Pandemic?

Joel Harmon

I can neither confirm nor deny in an on-topic manner :)

Bardic Wizard

Well, I’m sorry it’s not an option

Stabbing things is good stress relief

Joel Harmon

I recall seeing a sign for a college fencing club: "Come make new friends, then stab them!"

Bardic Wizard

02:34

But I’ll take what i can get

BESW

@BardicWizard Dungeons of the Dungeons maybe?

Bardic Wizard

@BESW That’s actually pretty interesting. Quick and stabby.

RevenantBacon

03:14

@JoelHarmon I've kind of always wanted to learn fencing

Or really any skill involving swinging around swords and/or stabbing people for the entertainment of myself and others

Joel Harmon

Does Beat Sabre count?

RevenantBacon

No, those are lightsabers, totally different :p

But for real tho, I would totally play that

Joel Harmon

I've played it before; it's a good time.

RevenantBacon

Unrelated: has anyone ever played Jovian Chronicles? It's the main component of the current Bundle of Holding

And for those who are unaware, Bundle of Holding is like Humble Bundle, but for TRPGs'

RevenantBacon

03:47

Oh, and one of the other bundles is a bunch of 5e adventures from Goodman Games

Bardic Wizard

05:41

RPG design question: is “roll all the dice you have at once, don’t reroll any even if they land weird. If more than half (rounded up) of the dice are even, it’s a success” a good kind of mechanic? My 2 biggest stress relievers are rolling lots of dice and threatening to stab things (including stabbing holes through paper with a pair of compasses) so this is for an RPG that uses both of those things

It’s for a game that’s going to be about stabbing textbooks and rolling dice, so I guess it’s more about in that context.

MikeQ

Would that math work like a binomially distributed coin flip?

Bardic Wizard

I have no idea?

MikeQ

Assuming each die has an even number of sides, P(even) = P(one success) = 1/2. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Bardic Wizard

So I guess that would work like a coin flip then. I didn’t think of that.

BESW

It sounds feasible, though it would take me a very long time to determine success on a single roll.

Bardic Wizard

05:47

(My thought process was “I need to stab my textbook. Rolling dice is fun. Stabbing textbooks by rolling dice is awesome”)

BESW

If coin flip odds with fistfuls of dice are what you want, then it's great.

Bardic Wizard

Fistfuls of dice are very important

BESW

If you've got lots of different sizes of dice, consider counting 1s.

Smaller dice are more likely to come up 1, so you can assign significance to different sizes of dice.

This is what Danger Patrol does, and it can lead to satisfyingly large handfuls of dice.

(Four and higher count toward success, natural 1s add complications. The smaller the dice the easier it is to add lots of them to your hand.)

Bardic Wizard

Maybe, but that feels a lot less simple than even/odd. I’ve never tried a system like either, so I don’t exactly have a baseline

Whichever way I choose, I’m going to need a lot of dice...

BESW

I recommend an over/under rather than an even/odd.

How many dice are we talking about here?

I've got about 200, myself, and some of them aren't numerical, so adding them up more than once a session would be, awkward.

linksassin

05:56

Shadowrun is based off a system of counting 5/6s. As dice pools get bigger it gets repetitive fast. Though you have ruled out exploding dice which is a good time saver.

Bardic Wizard

A good many, of many different types. I own 3d20, 3d12, 5d10, 3d8, 4d6, and 3d4.

BESW

At last full count:

May 21 '15 at 9:06, by BESW

9d4, 69d6, 24dF, 22d8, 44d10, 11d12, 17d20

linksassin

I agree that over/under is better than even/odd though. Even odd is always the same odds regardless of dice size and its hard to add modifiers to the roll.

Bardic Wizard

I’m probably going to borrow at least one more full set from my siblings so it could theoretically be bigger for this use case though

linksassin

@BardicWizard We all start somewhere I guess. That isn't exactly what I would call "a good many"

Probably a hundred or so dice short.

BESW

05:58

It's certainly enough for most D&D games.

Bardic Wizard

@linksassin the thing is that “exactly the same odds despite dice sizes” is what I’m looking for in this case. Simple and stabby are the watchwords of this game

BESW

There's a system that has you roll lots of dice and then arrange them into straights, pairs, etc.

linksassin

True. It is certainly sufficient for most thing. But is by no means expansive.

Bardic Wizard

@linksassin it’s the second most out of my group. The only one with more is my bff who collects them for fun

Unfortunately my phone is gonna die in a minute so I’ve got to go, but thanks for the insights!

BESW

A lot of my dice came from friends who didn't want theirs anymore.

ttfn

linksassin

06:01

@BardicWizard most of us become that person eventually if you stay in the hobby long enouhg. I don't even go out of my way to get dice but easily have 10+ sets plus assorted other dice

see ya later. Good luck with the game

Adeptus

@RevenantBacon Humble Bundle has a TRPG bundle at the moment, too. HUMBLE RPG BOOK BUNDLE: OLD SCHOOL REVIVAL DRAGONS, DUNGEONS, & MAZES

linksassin

@BESW That's a shame. But a win for you.

BESW

@linksassin I had a friend who swore off TRPGs because they were "taking too much of his time and money" (read: he thought going to bars was cooler) and "sold" me all his books and dice for $10 to "get rid of the temptation." Three months later he was borrowing dice to play again.

linksassin

@BESW A true redemption arc. Could make a movie out of it.

BESW

Also had a friend who had to leave island really fast and I inherited a lot of his kit.

trogdor

06:46

I've had that happen with gaming consoles

XD

like one or maybe two times

linksassin

@trogdor Me too. I've got 2 X360s a PS2 and a PS3 none of which i paid for.

trogdor

07:22

I got a Gamecube that I was supposed to be borrowing but the freind I got it from abrubtly left and never came back

there may have also been another one but I forgot what console it even was, and my memory is so faint on it I could have bought that one myself

so my memory is so un-exact I'm just not sure

AncientSwordRage

09:57

I have many dice

AncientSwordRage

10:42

(but not enough dice)

Joel Harmon

11:38

@AncientSwordRage Is there any such thing?

lisardggY

good morning/ish

Thomas Markov

aye

AncientSwordRage

@lisardggY <iTag>

Joel Harmon

I don't have a count, but the family dice bowl is about one hand-length wide and one hand-width tall. That doesn't count the kiddo's giant foam dice set, nor any die found in a board game.

lisardggY

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit, but I have very, very, very few dice.

For the past 5 years or so I've been playing with the same group, and we either use the GM's dice or use our personalized, customized sets - that we keep at the GM's place, along with the rest of the campaign's character sheets, minis and everything.

AncientSwordRage

11:52

@lisardggY What you mean is you have a large capacity to acquire dice.

Joel Harmon

Nothing to be embarrassed about. Some people are just minimalists. Others are simply sane.

lisardggY

I have 2-3 sets of Fudge dice and a small mixed bowl that the kid likes to play with and lose some occasionally.

AncientSwordRage

@JoelHarmon never

Joel Harmon

@AncientSwordRage New head cannon: God didn't create the universe, he just needed a whole bunch of dice, so he made these quantum particles. Improbably enough, a universe formed.

@BESW Oddly enough, I've justified buying books with "Well, if I met friends at a bar or restaurant 3 times, I'd spend $X, but if I met friends at my place 3 times, I'd only spend $x. The book may let us meet up even more for free after that!"

lisardggY

@JoelHarmon That's a good rationale. Instead of justifying an expense on its own, justify in in terms of the good it does you. I sometimes hesitate to pay $10-20 for a game or an app, but then remind myself that I wouldn't hesitate spending that money on a meal or a drink, and chances are a game will bring me more satisfaction.

AncientSwordRage

12:03

@lisardggY you can't eat a game though

Thomas Markov

So I really liked this one set of infinite black elder dice

But it was $25 for a single set

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov was it tasty?

lisardggY

@AncientSwordRage Dunno. Can I?

Thomas Markov

So I went to my local shop and dug through their dice bins and made five set for $20 of the same dice

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov I'm now imagining dwarves mining for dice

lisardggY

12:07

@AncientSwordRage They delved too deep, until they had awoken the fearsome D100.

3

AncientSwordRage

The Arkendice

lisardggY

Legend says that anyone who rolls a natural 100 on it goes mad.

AncientSwordRage

Some even say this...HAS ALREADY HAPPENED

Joel Harmon

@AncientSwordRage I thought BESW had an RPG built around making a sandwich.

AncientSwordRage

It wouldn't surprise me

Hot RPG Questions

12:17

4

Q: What are the limits of the Conception spell?

Conception is an interesting spell. With the casting of this spell, you guarantee that on your next attempt, you and your partner will conceive a child. Conception overcomes sterility or infertility in either you or your partner, whether natural or due to an injury, illness, or curse, as well as...

3

Q: The BBEG wants to delay the party in the final battle... (monologue?)

I have thought of a few methods they might accomplish this. In this question, I am wondering about a potentially more controversial option. I am considering having them attempt to monologue with a timer running, then increase the battle rounds by the amount of time they were able to enthrall the ...

pathfinder-1e gm-techniques villain

AncientSwordRage

@HotRPGQuestions what an interesting thing to have a spell for

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@AncientSwordRage Magic tomes geared towards actual living in a fantasy world and not adventuring at the fringes thereof tend to have some interesting things in them. You can learn them . . . not from an adventurer-magus.

AncientSwordRage

The context of the question very neatly explains why it might be relevant to know such a spell

goodguy5

12:47

@AncientSwordRage I definitely read the title and was like "noooo.... that can't..... is it 3rd party? ah there it is woowwwwwwwwww"

BESW

13:05

@AncientSwordRage I'm not gonna link to it because I have an unpleasant association with the author now, but it's not hard to find in chat history.

nitsua60

@BESW My kids like that one. Where you've got five and can reroll any subset of them, twice?

(he he he)

BESW

@nitsua60 You laugh, but CthulhuTech's core outcome resolution is basically Yahtzee but you have to call your shots and can't re-roll.

nitsua60

@BESW I do laugh! How'd you know?

BESW

I read the subtitles.

NautArch

@lisardggY We've got one of those in my group. Alas, that as when in-person was a thing.

AncientSwordRage

13:23

@BESW I mistook 'had' for 'had made', apologies

AncientSwordRage

13:33

I imagine the dwarves uncovering large versions ofthese

Someone_Evil

Are there any real world materials that crystallize as icosahedrons? I feel like I should know this

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil not true icosohedrons as they don't tesselate

RevenantBacon

@HotRPGQuestions I can't even

BESW

@Someone_Evil Boron, sometimes.

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage This would be a matter of crystal growth, and there are materials with Ih units and/or symmetry

AncientSwordRage

13:40

> The “icosahedral quasicrystal” looks ordered to the eye, but has no repeating pattern. ... Researchers say this property, called “icosahedral symmetry,” is frequently found on small scales around a single point, like in virus shells or buckyballs—molecules of 60 carbon atoms. But it is forbidden in a conventional crystal
> https://www.futurity.org/icosahedral-quasicrystal-826082

BESW

See also liquid crystals with icosahedral symmetry.

AncientSwordRage

Dodecaborate

The dodecaborate(12) anion, [B12H12]2-, has the structure of a regular icosahedron of boron atoms, with each boron atom being attached to a hydrogen atom. Its symmetry is classified by the molecular point group Ih. == Synthesis and reactions == The existence of the dodecaborate(12) anion, [B12H12]2-, was predicted by H. C. Longuet-Higgins and M. de V. Roberts in 1955. Hawthorne and Pitochelli first made it 5 years later, by the reaction of iododecarborane with triethylamine in benzene solution at 80 °C. It is more conveniently prepared in two steps from sodium borohydride. First the borohydride...

@AncientSwordRage If this is a possible, dupe, can we get a link to the other question for easier comparison? — RevenantBacon 43 mins ago

@RevenantBacon the dupe candidates are listed above the question

BESW

[grumbles] Why do Irish wolfhound spines seem so much like slinkies?

RevenantBacon

Oh, those weren't there when I followed the link, only your comment was on

BESW

It's really hard to draw them without it looking like I have no idea what a dog look likes.

AncientSwordRage

13:47

@RevenantBacon weird, I only posted that because I had seen those links

RevenantBacon

Yeah, I dunno, I guess it hadn't closed yet? I was really confused, because it showed no close votes and no links for dupes, but you had a comment saying others had thought it was a dupe, so I thought maybe it had been discussed in chat, but there was nothing here either.

Someone_Evil

It was reopened and then closed again

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil ahhhh

NautArch

:D

AncientSwordRage

that explains the extra dupe candidates

Someone_Evil

13:53

Both the revision history and timeline show this, and the latter also shows comments, so can be particularly useful for "what state was the question in when this comment was made"

Thomas Markov

@NautArch what did you think of my meta answer to your dupe question

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Super long, but it covered it. Honestly, I was just trying to avoid a gold badge war.

but the Kryan just went in with the hammer anyway.

Thomas Markov

Does gold badge let you unilaterally open a question too?

NautArch

yup (as long as it's closed as a dupe)

Someone_Evil

Aye

NautArch

13:54

the dupe hammer works both ways

Someone_Evil

And there's the added feature of editing the dupe list, which is (generally) how you see questions closed as a dupe of multiple questions

Thomas Markov

Can we add the 50 gp and 5000 gp questions to each others dupe list?

Theres honestly some good answers to both those questions as well.

Someone_Evil

Can't actually mark them as duplicates of eachother

There's a defence mechanism against dupe-chains

Thomas Markov

try harder

:P

Someone_Evil

These questions are right mess, but aren't really well suited to merging either as far as I can see

Thomas Markov

14:06

The current state of affairs is agreeable.

Thomas Markov

14:18

@Someone_Evil I would have done it the other way around since the 50 gp one is much older

NautArch

The timing is less important than the umbrella vs the specific

for me, at least

Someone_Evil

I may have (re)discovered the def.mechanism when I tried to close the other one, and it isn't important enough really for me to bother switching

GcL

@ThomasMarkov I just was looking that as well. Duplicate is a poor name if we're allowing things to be marked duplicates of subsequent questions.

Ford Model-T marked as duplicate of Ford Taurus.

I propose TEA: There exists an answer.

Thomas Markov

I got some mcdonalds tea this morning. It was a disappointing start to the morning.

GcL

I imagine just about any noun obtained from that franchise is disappointing.

AncientSwordRage

14:22

@ThomasMarkov do you hate yourself?

Thomas Markov

@AncientSwordRage More or less. Lunch will be better.

Ive got to run home and shower on my lunch break. I normally stay in the office, but I had to collect some data on dead chickens. Now I stank.

GcL

Better than having to wave chickens. I really dislike those procedures.

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov I don't envy your job, whatever it is

Thomas Markov

@AncientSwordRage Data analyst for a poultry processor

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov that ~~chicks~~ checks out

Thomas Markov

14:31

I spend most of my time in the office.

But every once in a while I have to do something out on the plant floor.

GcL

Poultry processing sound stinky.

RevenantBacon

@GcL I second this motion, after all, everyone like TEA!

AncientSwordRage

@RevenantBacon for a given value of tea

GcL

Now we just have to find a ~~sucker~~ err... champion to put the suggestion on meta.

Thomas Markov

@GcL It's not so bad after the chickens have been picked. Most of the evisceration floor smells like a hospital.

nose goes.

touches nose

RevenantBacon

14:42

@AncientSwordRage Well, as in tea in general, not, y'know, burger place tea.

I don't think I know a single person who doesn't like some form of tea, whether it's hot chameleon tea, iced sweet tea, or something else.

GcL

burger place is a generous description. Rapid dispenser of technically edible consumable material...

Thomas Markov

alright, so ive got an idea for a cantrip

GcL

@RevenantBacon Leaf flavored water? Does gin count?

RevenantBacon

probably

@ThomasMarkov That's never a good sign :p

Thomas Markov

@RevenantBacon Youre gonna love it, I promise

The cantrip is called can trip

RevenantBacon

14:45

oh no

Thomas Markov

Concentration, 1 minute

target makes a charisma save, on a failure, target creature has disadvantage on saving throws and ability checks against being knocked prone.

RevenantBacon

oh dear

wait, why a charisma save?

NautArch

sounds very panache-like

Thomas Markov

Because the verbal component is a rude remark about how clumsy they are

Ive got another one

Youre gonna love it

This next cantrip is called can't trip

It has a casting time of one reaction, which you use when you are knocked prone

You may stand up without expending any movement.

RevenantBacon

Ok, so the first one is reasonably useful, the second one is really strong, but also hyper situational.

Bardic Wizard

15:08

Those are good though.

I’ve got one: Can’t Rip

The clothing you cast it on won’t rip for 8 hours no matter what.

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@ThomasMarkov Oh, I see someone dug up the spell list out of the Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming.

Bardic Wizard

Captain Kirk would hate it, but it’s like preemptive mending

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

Err, cantrip list.

AncientSwordRage

How about: Can Trip, you can pause combat while you get everyone a canned beverage

GcL

@AncientSwordRage verbal component is "beer me"

AncientSwordRage

15:13

@GcL non-alcoholic alternatives available

GcL

Sure, but they don't have as catchy a phrase.

RevenantBacon

oh no intensifies

Where's @Yuuki ? He's all about puns like these

Yuuki

speak "friend" and ~~enter~~ the devil shall appear

RevenantBacon

Oh, the summoning ritual was a success!

Yuuki

How about Can't Rip, provides 1 DR/tearing to objects.

RevenantBacon

15:23

Wait, I gotta see if my latent summoning powers are manifest

@V͕̱̬͖̳͍͈͍͂͆̉́̒̈́͊͢͝͡2͇̟͎̠̙̭̗̱̗̹̳͔͕͈̘͕̓͂͗̅͆̓̊̎͑̀͋̾͐̕͘̕͢͡B̨̡̢͔̘̘̩̫̟̰̪̘̾͐̌͂͒̊̾̋̇̕͡͝͞ͅl̛̼̖̬̯̭̣͔͙̦̥̥͂̉́͐͊͗͂͘͘͡a͍͖͙̗̗͎̱͙̻̪͈̱̣͈̙͋̊͂̽̈́͛͊͐̑̇̒̚̚͘͠s̱̞̝̥̦̖̪̞̫͕͎̜̒̇̆̉͐̔̆͊̒͒͊͋͘͜͜͝t̤̣̺͖͚̺̼̘̭̺̪̯̹̫͔͂͊̇͐̿̊̿͒͊̐̐̋̚͟͢͠͞͝͝ I summon thee!!!

Hmm, I guess not.

goodguy5

the only person that can be summoned is @X̛̱̣̭̱̮̽ͪ̔ͪi͙͇͎̎ͧ̂r̯͕̫̪̺̘͍͆̊́̅̇ê̠̰̹̓ͯ͒̎͠m͖̬̜̤̍͂ͫͮ̓̂ä̘̠̖̱̮̬̻ͨ͐̈́̉̿ͭ

Thomas Markov

@RevenantBacon wtf is that

goodguy5

@Xirema is the only elemental

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov sumoning ritual

didn't work, probably had the wrong inflections

goodguy5

gotta get those runes right

@Xirema eh hem. X̛̱̣̭̱̮̽ͪ̔ͪi͙͇͎̎ͧ̂r̯͕̫̪̺̘͍͆̊́̅̇ê̠̰̹̓ͯ͒̎͠m͖̬̜̤̍͂ͫͮ̓̂ä̘̠̖̱̮̬̻ͨ͐̈́̉̿ͭ

oh well

Thomas Markov

15:36

are there any spells that allow you to walk through walls?

GcL

@ThomasMarkov Passwall?

meld with stone might do it. I don't recall if that allows you to go through the otherside or just hang out for a while.

Nope... investiture of stone is what I'm thinking about.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Or a ring of earth elemental command

Thomas Markov

I've got an answer to the echo knight question that has gone 3 months with no upvoted answers.

GcL

I could pop by and toss a downvote on it if you want

I've got a few free ones remaining for today.

Thomas Markov

@GcL At least read it first :)

GcL

15:41

Don't need to. I trust you.

Thomas Markov

@GcL my rep will never recover

@GcL forreal though you should read it and see if it is worth one of your precious costly upvotes

GcL

I don't do upvotes.

AncientSwordRage

I ran out of upvotes the other day

RevenantBacon

At one point I decided that I wanted to get that badge for doing a bunch of upvotes, so I ran out my supply of votes for like 5 days in a row upvoting answers to get the badge

GcL

Play silly games win silly badges?

RevenantBacon

15:57

Did I say 5 days in a row? I was wrong. it was for the Electorate badge and was like 2 whole weeks because I needed a total of 600 answers upvoted.

GcL

@ThomasMarkov I find the fundamental premise of what a character can do in the current timeline limiting how things might have been different in other timelines as fundamentally flawed. I think the presence of a floor in one timeline does not constrain the presence nor location of a floor in another timeline.

NautArch

@GcL that's frustratingly accurate

GcL

Following the logic of different timelines, the ehco "in the air" is actually standing on a floor or ground that does exist in the timeline they're drawn from.

NautArch

although if we're allowing different timelines to have different environment, then it's possible that timeline that allows for such movement also blocks line of sight

So you're echo could go 'up', but then it can't be seen nor can it see.

GcL

Now, I would absolutely remove the icon of the echo if they moved it someplace they couldn't see. They'd have to maintain where they thought the echo was themselves. I'd probably use the dimension door rules for teleporting into solid objects if they did the swap places while the echo was superimposed over a table.

Thomas Markov

16:00

I blame the other Matthew Mercer effect - frustratingly ambiguous feature design.

RevenantBacon

I would allow movement through the air, as the ability does say any direction, but I would disallow moving through walls, since you can't see through them to move to the echo there.

NautArch

I like @ThomasMarkov's ruling. It can't be supported (and I don't think the others can, either), but it makes good sense to me

GcL

That's a discussion about the nature of a translucent image.

NautArch

however, the easiest solution is just not allowing wildemount

GcL

I'd warn the player that the character knows the inherent danger in "trading places" with an echo they can't see.

Thomas Markov

16:02

@GcL But, this is an upsettingly fair point, I may delete and rework it further.

NautArch

Nick's answer also makes an assumption about it being an object

Thomas Markov

I've deleted, Im going to outline both sides of the argument

Thanks for the feedback guys.

GcL

Just pick the side you think that's correct and go with that.

goodguy5

am I misremembering or did the proper spelling of JavaScript used to have a lower case 'j'? Maybe I'm conflating with jQuery?

GcL

I'd say ask Oracle, but they'll just sue you no mater what you choose.

I write it as javascript.

I think capital J and S are the trademarked version. JavaScript TM

AncientSwordRage

16:06

@goodguy5 conflating

goodguy5

ah, oh well

AncientSwordRage

although it's really spelt ECMAScript

GcL

Since Oracle owns that... the proper spelling is anything else.

goodguy5

^_^

AncientSwordRage

@GcL Oracle 'own' Java, but no one owns JavaScript

GcL

16:08

@AncientSwordRage I'm reasonably certain Oracle does actually own "JavaScript"

AncientSwordRage

@GcL ahh it's trademarked

so more accurately, they don't own ecmascript

Thomas Markov

I briefly mentioned @GcL's comments in the bottom of the answer.

Peter Cooper Jr.

> 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

AncientSwordRage

@GcL Rick and Morty explicitly don't do time travel (except a few incidents), so when Rick grabs a Pizza from another dimension it's because their counterparts ordered it earlier than the family in the current dimension would have done.

seems like a similar loophole

> It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.

Mmmhmmm I can confirm my university programming was 90% syntax errors

Bardic Wizard

16:30

It’s 9:30, I’m halfway through my first class, and I’ve already got a migraine

I’m gonna stab someone

Correction— something

NautArch

@BardicWizard what do you take?

AncientSwordRage

@NautArch for the class or for the migraine?

NautArch

@AncientSwordRage mgraine :P

Bardic Wizard

16:49

@NautArch I don’t take anything,thats the problem. It’s caused by some kid who isn’t muted feeding static right back into the meeting and it’s just so constant it’s triggering my noise sensitivity

NautArch

@BardicWizard So not an actual migraine?

Bardic Wizard

@NautArch it’s a developing migraine

NautArch

@BardicWizard you've been diagnosed, but they didn't offer any prescriptions?

Bardic Wizard

@NautArch i don’t think I’ve ever been properly diagnosed

NautArch

@BardicWizard then it may not be an actual migraine. I'd highly recommend visiting a neurologist if you think you're getting them.

Bardic Wizard

16:54

It may not be

but it’s a bad headache for sure

and so now I’ve got to get to my next class and hope that removing the probem removes the headache

NautArch

Sorry, very different things. And as a migraine sufferer for decades, it's meaningful.

Bardic Wizard

Whoops. I didn’t know there was an actual difference, so I’m sorry if I accedentally offended anyone

NautArch

no worries. Migraines are a diagnosable neurological condition. Very similar to epilepsy.

GcL

17:11

@BardicWizard Kids these days! I blame the music they listen to. Just sounds like static!

RevenantBacon

Yeah, it's nothing like back in the day when the radio quality was so bad all you could hear was the static!

NautArch

@GcL it's called dub-step.

@RevenantBacon or when the tv stations went off-air

RevenantBacon

@NautArch now with 96.5% more WUB WUB!

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage that is the correct answer. 👍

kviiri

Fun radio fact: morse code transmission is done by selectively transmitting and not transmitting the carrier wave. Basically when there's a sound, the carrier is on (key down), when there's no sound the carrier is off (key up). So it's based on rhythmically switching the wave on and off.

So what do the HAM radio people call this mode of transmission? CW. For *continuous* wave.

KorvinStarmast

17:17

@AncientSwordRage I am not sure that this is true. Wendy's had a D&D thing a few years ago, which IIRC involved eating actual Wendy's food. We may even have a Q&A on that.

kviiri

(there is a decent historical rationale for it, but it's still funny)

KorvinStarmast

@kviiri I learned Morse Code in the boy scouts and had to use it in the Navy (visual, flashing light signals, and aural, for nav station identification in aircraft). Not sure if it is still in use though ...

Someone_Evil

9

Q: How can I discourage gluttony while still granting buffs?

In Wendy's Feast of Legends, characters gain bonuses for foods eaten by their players. The game explicitly mentions that buffs stack and there are a total 6 different food items (briefly: burger, chicken, frosty, drink, fries, salad). A particularly health-reckless power-gamer could gorge thems...

gm-techniques house-rules feast-of-legends

kviiri

@KorvinStarmast Ham radio still uses it, but its in decline

KorvinStarmast

My dad was a morse code user in the US Army Signal Corps in the 40's.

kviiri

17:19

It's not been mandatory for over a decade

(mandatory as a part of the qualifications)

Automated station ID messages are usually in morse

KorvinStarmast

@Someone_Evil aha, that one! Thanks! :)

AncientSwordRage

@RevenantBacon esper?

RevenantBacon

@AncientSwordRage pandora

AncientSwordRage

@RevenantBacon white blue black (wub) is the esper shard on alara

KorvinStarmast

@ThomasMarkov Or you can make your clothing indestructible with the can't rip cantrip

@AncientSwordRage Can Trip - bathroom break. ("The Can" was once slang for the rest room / Water closet / baño)

RevenantBacon

17:29

@AncientSwordRage yeah, I'm aware, I'm currently running Esper Zombies for one of my EH decks, but I was referencing the BL2 trailer from way back

I, the mighty Archmage Feldomist cast Potty break, brb

Someone_Evil

@RevenantBacon What else are you gonna do with time stop?

KorvinStarmast

@NautArch wisdom score higher than 14 is in evidence here

goodguy5

@NautArch I lent 10 bucks to a friend of mine for new pants for a funeral and he sent me back 20

kviiri

@goodguy5 Lend him more the next time

goodguy5

;)

KorvinStarmast

17:35

@goodguy5 That could be read as "money from beyond the grave" which is a weird variation of 'you can't take it with you'

goodguy5

XD

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

Interest rates are higher and returns on investment faster in the afterlife.

kviiri

There's an old joke. A man goes to rich cousin Wilford for financial assistance.

"Hey Wil, my father-in-law died and I need to buy a suit for the funeral." Wilford tells him to rent instead because it's cheaper, and hands him a slip of paper with an address. "This is my regular place, just tell them to send the bill to me."

A few weeks later, Wilford gets a bill from the suit rental and pays it. A couple of weeks further, another bill, which he pays, somewhat confused. When the third bill comes, he calls his cousin.

5

Rubiksmoose

XD

goodguy5

17:51

XD

Rubiksmoose

Copycat!

AncientSwordRage

@RevenantBacon BL2? I'm having a woosh moment

RevenantBacon

Borderlands 2 Launch Trailer

►

AncientSwordRage

Oh borderlands

Yuuki

I mean, games don't have a monopoly on abbreviated names. BL2 could've meant anything.

AncientSwordRage

17:58

Now I want a game called Blighty Langoustine 2

Thomas Markov

I think there is a workable question here, but it needs a lot of work. I've got to focus on actual work now, maybe one of you could leave a comment?

@nitsua60 You're good at this :)

NautArch

@RevenantBacon That comment on the focus question is really close to an answer (if not one.)

RevenantBacon

Well, it could certainly be expanded into an answer

NautArch

then that's what we like to call...a partial answer :(

Bardic Wizard

@GcL it’s not music just a feedback loop

GcL

18:12

@BardicWizard That's what I keep saying!

Bardic Wizard

im back by the way. At least precalc went better. The headache isn’t gone though cause theres just always talking in these meetings

RevenantBacon

@NautArch Maybe it will give them a starting point for making their own homebrew item

kviiri

@NautArch not an impartial one?

RevenantBacon

so they can come back with a good question

GcL

I'm not sure what precalc entails, but I'm pretty sure post-calc is matrix algebra. My recollection was anyone who took that after differential equations thought "crap! I was doing it the hard way that whole time?!"

NautArch

18:15

@RevenantBacon Maybe, but that's not what comments are for. I'mjust sayin' it should probably be removed.

Bardic Wizard

Precalc is a lot of graphing and generalizing.

kviiri

I've never really learned calculus, if calculus is what I think it is

It's a word that we don't really have and I'm not sure what'd be the exact translation

RevenantBacon

@NautArch Well, we'll probably disagree on that.

Thomas Markov

@NautArch Eh, that one's borderline to me. Considering that item is a good suggestion for helping the question get stackshape.

And im usually pretty trigger happy about calling out answers in comments.

kviiri

I learned a bit of integration for probability purposes and it seemed like a very useful skill but it just keeps slipping out of my head due to disuse

GcL

18:19

@kviiri Whats your word for math that involves considering accumulations of an infinite number of slices?

Thomas Markov

@kviiri I used integration at work yesterday!

NautArch

@RevenantBacon Hard to disagree when you say that you can expand on it to be an answer.

Thomas Markov

@GcL Riemann sum?

kviiri

@GcL I think the closest terms to calculus can think of are differentiaalilaskenta and integraalilaskenta. Or "calculation with differentials" or "calculation with integrals" respectively

At least that's what the univ. courses related to them were called and I think that's what calculus is?

GcL

Sounds close enough to me.

kviiri

18:22

When I was a fresher at the university my favorite math course was the very foundational "Introduction to discrete mathematics"

Thomas Markov

@kviiri How would you say Riemann sum?

Yuuki

@ThomasMarkov with a lot of traumatic memories

kviiri

@ThomasMarkov In Finnish? I think it's just Riemannin summa

Finnish usually uses genitive forms for science terms including proper nouns like that, so that'd translate literally as Riemann's sum. There are a few odd exceptions, though, and I'm not sure how much is just my young academic, very English-influenced bubble I'm in

RevenantBacon

@NautArch Negative, because in its current form, it isn't an answer, thus "could be expanded in to one"

Thomas Markov

@RevenantBacon At best, it's almost a frame challenge.

GcL

18:29

Thinking more about echo knights. I think I'd allow characters to take attacks of opportunity against an echo knight's image if it moved out of their threatened space. It has an AC, hitpoints, and is moving under it's own volition.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov which would also be considered an a nswer

Thomas Markov

@NautArch no u

goodguy5

In a surprise turn of events, I have an interview (internally) tomorrow.

GcL

@goodguy5 What questions are you asking yourself?

goodguy5

in general?

How did I get here, when will covid end?

NautArch

18:31

@goodguy5 ouch, in your own body?

goodguy5

Are we going to win any warzone games tonight? etc

NautArch

that seems unnecessarily intrusive

RevenantBacon

I suppose I could reduce my comment to "Have you checked out the magic items in the DMG for ideas? There may be something in there that is close to what you want to do already." but that feels like it would be less than helpful

kviiri

@goodguy5 Are you changing positions? Best of luck!

goodguy5

I'm being laid off at the end of the month

so, I'm working on fixing that

nitsua60

18:38

@kviiri most reasonable cultures would call it introductory real analysis.

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