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user15026

00:13

@BESW I know you were making a joke but this actually looks pretty great

AncientSwordRage

@Ash Yeah I was going to say it looks good

BESW

Personally I prefer Ed Emberley's thumbprint books, but yes!

user15026

00:27

@BESW I remember my doctors office had one of those and I always wanted my own copy. I forgot about that til now.

BESW

@Ash My library had several copies that I checked out regularly.

He's on my mind because just yesterday Steven Heller wrote a celebration of Ed Emberley in Print Magazine.

user15026

00:47

Neat

Shalvenay

01:10

hey there @KorvinStarmast, sorry about the delay (errands ran long)

AncientSwordRage

Anyone have their input box here flicker?

trogdor

01:35

@Ash yes I concur

XD

AncientSwordRage

02:11

Ok, I've solved the Vedalken Swashbuckler problem

The character has the Charlatan background, which says you have an alter-ego that you masquerade as to dupe people with.

What if their alter ego is the Charlatan

Because either of Inquisitive or Mastermind fit the character type, they don't look fun

AncientSwordRage

03:05

Looks like I can't add Swashbuckler to the character in D&D Beyond

Bardic Wizard

@AncientSwordRage Not if you haven’t bought the book

It doesn’t let you use an option you don’t own

I guess there’s a good reason about copyright but still it’s not fun

AncientSwordRage

@BardicWizard even if you're in a campaign where someone does?

Hot RPG Questions

03:39

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Q: How do I demoralize more often?

So I recently picked up the PF-2e core book, and I noticed that Intimidate as a skill has a lot more built-in support than it had in PF-1e, having both rogue and a fighter feats dedicated to it in the core book, specifically, the Demoralize use of Intimidate. Demoralize: With a sudden shout, a w...

Bardic Wizard

04:05

@AncientSwordRage I don’t know cause nobody else in my groups use dndbeyond

Bardic Wizard

05:33

@HotRPGQuestions answer: get good at image editing...

nitsua60

06:13

single-word-request empathy is the ability to put oneself in another's place (roughly). What's a word that would capture the enjoyment of or desire to understand what another's experience is like?

(posted on ELU, in case anyone comes up with a good idea)

The Oracle

06:40

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Q: How do ignore and watch commands interact?

If there is a question with multiple tags, of which I am ignoring one (should be faded) and watching another (should be made more visible), how will it be displayed for me? What if I am hiding ignored tags?

support tags

V2Blast

08:03

@AncientSwordRage Someone in the group would need to have a Master Tier subscription and enable content sharing. Then any purchased content owned by anyone in the campaign group is shared with everyone else in the group.

AncientSwordRage

09:06

@V2Blast I'd have to check with @NautArch I think

AncientSwordRage

09:20

Looks like the character had to be claimed

AncientSwordRage

13:13

Is there a different chat for character creation?

BESW

Not to my knowledge. As usual if a conversation is taking up a lot of oxygen here it can go to the NAB.

But generally we've found that dedicated-topic side rooms aren't really sustainable in the long term.

KorvinStarmast

13:48

@Shalvenay Mrs S was a bit under weather, I'll send you an invite in Discord and then we'll figure out a day and time. Sorry, I was off line most of last n ight. (Probably good for me, all things considered)

@AncientSwordRage you can try the back room, it does tend to get some traffic ...

AncientSwordRage

14:25

Thanks @BESW + @KorvinStarmast

Bardic Wizard

17:47

Theoretical question: how likely would it be that 2 20th level PCs and 2 dragon wyrmlings (a white dragon and a pink dragon which basically uses red dragon stats) could survive tomb of horrors? This is 5th edition and probably not going to happen, because they are currently 5th level so it’ll be a while, but they’re a ranger and a paladin (neither really knows when to cast spells at this time but are working on it)

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast got your invite

Hot RPG Questions

18:05

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Q: Cloudkill plus Insect Plague - What do the players see?

I am preparing an encounter of my players against a drow priestess of Lolth, a drow mage, and several regular drow and giant spiders. As the drow have been forewarned, they set up an ambush: The priestess cast Insect Plague on a spot 20 feet away from the entrance, and the mage cast Cloudkill on ...

dnd-5e spells vision-and-light

nitsua60

18:29

Not a problem. I and three others tackled the 5e version of it with no problem at... 14th?
I know wyrmlings don't have the punch that 14th-level PCs do, but there's not a huge amount of combat, frankly.
I will give TftYP people this: they didn't touch ToH too much but to re-stat things appropriately, so it's still much more about the player half of PC than it is the character half.

Carcer

19:55

whoops, forgot I was gold for dnd-5e

Thomas Markov

@nitsua60 you here?

Bardic Wizard

21:23

Well apparently my role in the party for the next few sessions is going to be keeping an NPC and the artificer from killing each other

I probably should have taken Fireball at level up

BESW

21:52

Oh I haven't been transcribing TRPG stuff from the Fabulous Firehose for a while, have I?

Wikia Jam is over, it got seven entries!

BOLT RPG Animal Pack by Lexi the Fae. Expanded rules for Animal Companions for the BOLT RPG

Stay Behind Me! by Lexi the Fae. Expanded Rules for Shields and Taking Cover in the BOLT RPG

Hedgewitch Tales by adela grace. a game about kindness, strange magic, and healing.

Bookmark Jam deadline was extended; you've got a day and a half left to submit!

Foo Bar

Hi everyone. Meta-meta question: Is there a chat for meta stuff and rpg.SE etiquette discussion, or should I just go to Meta?

Carcer

we can discuss meta things here

depends on how formal you want it, I guess

BESW

@FooBar Sometimes we talk about that stuff here, but no chat is the place for definitive conversations about guidelines or procedures; meta is the place where those things can be effectively archived and input can be given by people who aren't there at the moment.

So yeah, we discuss it here but major decisions aren't made here.

Foo Bar

Ok thanks. That's fine, I don't think this is major.

BESW

Cool.

"Mnemonic with the Team" an interview with Dee Pennyway and the Mnemonic team to talk about Mnemonic: A Weaver’s Almanac, by Brie Beau Sheldon on Thoughty.

DropTheDie wrote a twitter thread about "how one begins writing #ttrpg products."

Kickstarter: The Wretched: Second Printing by Chris Bissette. Bringing The Wretched back into print.

Ruled By Night Jam Hosted by Sinister Beard Games. Use the Ruled by Night SRD to create and upload your own stealth based roleplaying game!

Foo Bar

22:08

On my recent question, @Pleasedontbeevil asked a clarification question whose answer IMO is worth being retained with the question, but longer than 600 characters.

I know comment threads are bad form, so that's out. Do I edit the question? I recall someone telling me that revising based on a comment is also bad form, but I forget why.

Someone_Evil

Link?

Foo Bar

BTW: rpg.stackexchange.com/a/175055/2610

BESW

I advocate editing a post to organically fold in information inspired by a comment, rather than responding to the comment itself.

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If the information doesn't make sense to add to the post (like it's significantly tangential) then options include inviting to chat or turning it into a new question-and-answer.

Foo Bar

Ok thanks. I'll have to think about that.

BESW

I don't know enough about 5e to say whether that's the case here or not, I'm just covering the bases.

Someone_Evil

22:16

Isn't Pleasestopbeingevil's comment a response to Eddymage's comment? Otherwise I'm failing to see what is meant

BESW

But I definitely have a quizzical puzzlement for the idea that revising a post based on a comment is bad form--unless it's specifically that "EDIT TO ADD: [yadda yadda]" kind of editing, rather than folding the new content into the flow of the post.

Foo Bar

NP. I have to think about whether my clarification is properly relevant to the question as-is, or if it changes the nature of the question.

Carcer

@Someone_Evil no, it's suggesting that the "application" step is step 10, not step 9, since some mechanics allow you to react to the damage being rolled before it's applied

Someone_Evil

@BESW AFAIK it stems from forums which host conversations, and thus you mark edits so not to invalidate/make confusing any responses already given

BESW

@Someone_Evil Yeah, it's another thing the Stack's model does differently without telling anybody until they do it wrong.

I'm guessing people read "don't use that form for edits" as "don't edit based on comments" because for a lot of other places that form is synonymous with editing of any kind.

Five! by Galadin. A Fantasy BOLT Hack built on classical elements.

Pammu wrote a twitter thread about #SWORDDREAM. "I've gotten queries on what *Dream is all about and how it 'works', so I'll tackle that as much as I can."

"Design Like A Punk: The Thesis Track" by Machine Age Productions. "I want to go over more overarching RPG writing and design advice. This is the first in what'll hopefully be a series of blogs I'm calling Design Like A Punk. I'm going to teach you how I built #iHunt. If you know #iHunt, you know it stands as unique in a lot of ways. In this series, I want to break down some of the approaches that made it stand alone."

What's So Cool About Henshin Heroes by Lucas Valensa. With the help of a piece of fantastic and mysterious technology called a HENSHIN MORPHER you can change from a mild mannered civilian into a super powered form that allows you to defend the innocent and defeat the forces of evil.

Upcoming Kickstarter: Hero Too: Super Edition by Maria Fanning. A single player journaling RPG about being a teen superhero and messy trans narratives.

GM-Less Storytelling Jam Hosted by Marc Strocks. This jam is for GM-less games that you can throw yourself into (for one-shots or long periods) just as like you could during the game the GM spent hours charting out the world and plotpoints of.

Kickstarter: The BOLT RPG Engine by Ajey Pandey. The lightning-fast RPG system! Fast and tense action, setting-agnostic rules, and flexible hacking tools.

GillianThreeG shared on twitter their thumbnail paintings for the Islands of Sina Una.

Flavortown: A Modern Tall Tale by MonkipiQuinn. A roleplaying game of community and competition

Fairy Corgi Steeplechase by Varnished Truths. a 1-page racing game with fairies and corgis

user15026

22:38

@BESW oh I reaaaally like these

BESW

"An interview with Samuel Mui, a Malaysian RPG designer" on C'est pas du Jeu De Rôle ( si! ).

user15026

Aw, I was going to practice my French skills on that.

BESW

Turn Based Tactics Jam Hosted by Margaret Catter. Create your own original system designed to run turn based tactics and strategy games.

ARC Tabletop RPG by momatoes: Introduction and Chapter One now available for FREE. ARC is a role-playing game for players who want to save the world, surmount impossible odds, and emerge as heroes that defeat the apocalypse before precious time runs out. Inspired by OSR, ARC is light on rules but heavy on the tension. Can you make it out alive before the end? Launch date to be announced in a few weeks.

BOLT RPG Hack Bundle! A bundle hosted by Lexi the Fae. We're offering a bundle of our own hacks, supplements, and settings for the BOLT Engine!

Ajey Pandey wrote a twitter thread about the BOLT RPG Hack Bundle, "and why it’s the most important part of Bolt."

"Beginnings and a Fistful of Sixes" by Liam Stevens on Toa Tabletop.

Not TRPG but relephant to conversations in this room: DreadConquest wrote a twitter thread "about Ta Moko popping up in video-games as a cosmetic character option."

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Foo Bar

23:06

@BESW those links are interesting. What is Fabulous Firehose? Google hasn't heard of it, and context says it's not a Ubuntu fork.

BESW

Hahah. It's what I call a channel on my Discord server (which a number of people here are also in) where I dump whatever interesting links come my way. Every couple days I transcribe the TRPG-related ones over to here.

This dump is extra big because I had almost a week of backlog.

You'd get a similar effect to the Fabulous Firehose by following me on twitter.

I also advocate for people to follow these creators themselves and see whose voices those people are sharing.

AncientSwordRage

23:21

The reason people say not to edit, is that an edit can invalidate an answer

BESW

It's very unlikely that adding info would do that.

AncientSwordRage

It really depends son how much and what gets added, it can be quite transformative

BESW

I suppose. It would be beneficial to advise people not to invalidate answers, rather than not to edit. Editing is a core functionality of the site.

AncientSwordRage

Completely agreed

BESW

(Also we're talking about editing an answer, not editing a question.)

ComiXology has made all Black Panther single issues free for an unknown period of time, presumably in commemoration of the recent death of Chadwick Boseman. Don't sleep on Shuri, people!

AncientSwordRage

23:30

@BESW good point

nitsua60

@ThomasMarkov Whassup?

Thomas Markov

@nitsua60 I left a comment on a really old answer of yours

Mentions a rule the answer should probably consider

nitsua60

(crosses fingers it's not "where are all the races")

Hrmm... I see the one you're talking about.

I'm not sure I agree, but I need to come back and think about it when I've got a minute. (Girls are in the tub right now!)

Thomas Markov

It’s tied up in a string of dupes with conflicting answers

how old are your girls?

BESW

Kickstarter: .dungeon by John. A ttrpg that imagines the tabletop as a virtual space, like an MMO.

Valis wrote a twitter thread about "why I think BOLT is great."

VioletRiotGames wrote a twitter thread about "what makes a great player" and that "role-playing is not acting."

Bardic Wizard

23:55

Has anyone here ever been the intraparty diplomancer? I found myself playing peacemaker between the plot-NPC and the artificer today and I’m usually only diplomancing NPCs we’ll never meet again.

Note; threatening fireball didn’t work because both know I don’t know it, and threatening stabbing could accidentally blow up the NPC (long story involving a bunch of c4 on his neck and a stone golem as a rib)

BESW

Dec 3 '12 at 21:55, by BESW

This being 3.5, I also stacked Diplomacy and cause many fights to never actually happen.

MikeQ

@BardicWizard Yes, often. Sometimes I take that role by choice.

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