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trogdor

1:18 AM

Lol

1:28 AM

They just decided to go to the city to find shopping opportunities, and I told them there are no illegal shopping opportunities. My friend just said “I can make my own opportunities”, and the librarian said “isn’t illegal shopping just called stealing”.

My friend’s response: “yes. Yes it is”

@BardicWizard sells the rogue a bag of recalled lithium batteries

@BardicWizard is this in a game or IRL

AncientSwordRage

@TheDragonOfFlame yes

@TheDragonOfFlame game. I do a monthly game though the library

and they’re being hilarious today

Who doesn’t love illegal shopping

Also out of curiosity, online, or the sweet pleaser of in person games

1:40 AM

@TheDragonOfFlame Online

through zoom

the same rogue just suggested getting arrested by the Magic Overload Elimination Service to get them to find the leader of MOES

and now they’re debating whether our RL local energy provider has the ability to arrest people

Seriously

Nice lol

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@BardicWizard my understanding is "no, but why would you want to cheese off your power company like that anyway?"

1:56 AM

@Shalvenay they’re trying to prove a point

i think

I hope, at least

2:10 AM

Update: They did not get arrested

Yuuki

@Shalvenay Do you live in an area where your power is provided by a private company instead of a municipal utility?

@BardicWizard yay! Also, rogue is my fav class

@Yuuki no, we have the blessing of being in a place where there are no private electric utilities

Yuuki

Well, I got one of those "private-public partnership" things and lemme tell ya, I'd love to stick it to my power company.

@TheDragonOfFlame eheheh, I like Rogue, I just wish people would stop looking at it with blinders on XD

@Yuuki yeah, investors and utilities don't generally mix all that well -- ask anyone who's had to deal with PG&E lately

(aka "California's biggest criminal")

2:23 AM

@Shalvenay I played a LN rogue noble who was someone’s body guard

@TheDragonOfFlame xD sounds like my kind of rogue

"What do you do for a living?" "Oh, I'm a physical security specialist in the Lionguard"

2:39 AM

wild idea -- dragons can maneuver post-stall by twisting themselves about in a fashion similar to the cat righting reflex

@TheDragonOfFlame it was really really close though and the librarian and I both agree that the rogue in question (one of two in our group, actually, although the other one is a coffee obsessed elf) is IRL possibly evil and/or planning to take over the world

@TheDragonOfFlame I once tinkered with a LG locksmith/toolsmith type but couldn't quite get them to take off (having to be a vertically integrated metalsmithing op is a bit hard when you're a DEXer)

(Although the rogue we’re calling “evil” and I have a relationship somewhere between “best friend” and “sibling”, heavily leaning towards “sibling”, so take that comment with a grain of salt)

Q: Chances of specific sequence in X amount of dice?

4:44 AM

@Shalvenay joke or no joke? Also Lionguard montréal?

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1:29 PM

How would one structure a combat-heavy 5e campaign where the party is disincentivized against lethal force? Essentially, the party would be tasked with containing a curse that causes a type of violent mass hysteria and would be told in advanced that their goal is to save lives, not kill bad guys. It seems kind of ridiculous that the intended route for handling combat encounters where you don't want to hurt the enemy is to bean them as much as possible and then say "Non-lethal" on the last hit.

Someone_Evil

Tie it to bludgeoning weapons, and or have the opponents also make death saves when at 0 hit points (and thus need to be stabilized)?

Most end-game spells within the game revolve around doing as much collateral damage as possible in the vicinity of as many enemies as possible. The ones that do focus on containment and detainment are either only short term (on the order of minutes) or expect you to pay some exorbitant cost (e.g. force cage).

@Someone_Evil I don't think the issue here is in regards to them having cuts vs. bruises. It's the fact that the fighter is Omae wa Mou'ing people to subdue them in the first place.

I guess my question, as usual, would be why it has to be a D&D campaign, since D&D --as you've just enumerated-- isn't really designed for that kind of play.

I'd like to run the story as Fate Accelerated, because I'm still trying to get my feet wet with Fate. Group would rather play 5e.

To run that kind of campaign in D&D is to put the tension between system and goal at the center of the play experience.

1:37 PM

That's what I'm feeling. But I'm also kind of surprised that D&D has barely anything to support this

It's a very dungeon-crawly system

But it gives the impression that the world would rather kill you than stop you from J-walking

Maybe including these options as many did appear in the past editions and PF wasn't done to avoid Adventure League players for building a character that would contrast with the average Adventure League player?

If someone's trying a pacifist run when everyone's trying to see how fast they can kill 28 Goblins, who can do the most damage in one attack, etc., it can mess with party dynamics.

Q: Is the Psi Warrior's Psionic Strike ability affected by critical hits?

I was deeply amused that 3.5's idea of "pacifist" was basically "hold 'em down while your buddies beat 'em up."

That said, you could get some very interesting play out of leaning into the tension that your party's been given lethal non-precision tools and a precision non-lethal job.

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@BESW One thing that is quite hilarious in 5e is the Bugbear is able to grab people from 10 ft. away and force them to spend their turn breaking out of a grapple.

For melee combatants, they can't fight back

So a party of bugbears could detain up to 8 players. More if one of them dabbled in machining/human experiments and grew extra limbs.

Also, I like the way you put it last. "lethal non-precision tools and a precision non-lethal job"
Objective: Defend china shop using only a grenade.