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BESW

00:53

My MB type is BESW, obviously.

trogdor

what was the one you found for me again?

XD

was that ISBN? XD

BESW

Yes.

trogdor

01:20

XD

Bardic Wizard

Hey, are any mods around? If so I flagged a comment that makes me so ... ugh. Nice reminder my identity isn’t valid to a number of people

And this person does not understand a thing.

Something something “walk a mile in their shoes” something “don’t understand till you’ve lived it”

Akixkisu

@BardicWizard 3 comment flags will auto delete, so if you want to share the id to see it gone quickly, you could share it here.

Bardic Wizard

@Akixkisu this one: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/178397/…

BESW

Aaaand it's gone.

Bardic Wizard

@BESW thank goodness.

BESW

01:34

rpg.se generally tries to be good about this sort of stuff, but the whole space is completely public so it's not possible actually prevent people from saying whatever nastiness they like. We can only try to get rid of it ASAP.

Bardic Wizard

That was a mess of so much not-good stuff and I already haven’t been able to face mirror-me for a couple days cause of body stuff and jerks refusing to be respectful of pronouns

@BESW and it’s a good thing that we can get rid of it.

Powerdork

Gamers are tiresome.

BESW

Aye. Unfortunately the Stack wasn't built to make it easy to quickly remove content; its design philosophy is very Silicon Valley Tech Bro Freeze Peach, that all content is good until proven otherwise and that even poor content should be ranked rather than removed.

(Insert rant about misleading description of moderators' roles here.)

Akixkisu

Things like this edit make me furious rpg.stackexchange.com/revisions/178423/2

Anyhow that shouldn't belong here, my bad.

BESW

01:50

The submissions to Showcase Jam are really awesome.

Powerdork

I'm running some mini-campaigns with various games over Discord text and have a little bit of room in the group, if anyone is interested in gaming with people who don't scoff when they're asked their pronouns.

Just here to have fun with folks and play stuff in my library. Blades in the Dark (band of scoundrels in an industrial fantasy city), Armour Astir (armed rebellion w/ fantasy mechs), For the Honor (a party game inspired by Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands and Dreamworks She-Ra), batts's 6e, other smaller games.

BESW

@Powerdork No pressure but maybe consider trying a game of Goblin Court some time? I'd be thrilled to get feedback on it.

BESW

02:17

@Yuuki Also Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall by Wet Ink Games, which can also be pre-ordered here. An RPG of Chinese immigrants running the family restaurant by day, and dealing with the hauntings of Jiangshi by night!

Powerdork

02:28

@BESW Intriguing.

RBlong2us

hey guys, how long does it usually take for your post to spark interest?

BESW

Depends on a lot of variables like time of day/week and whether it's using tags/keywords that tend to get attention.

RBlong2us

ah, I didn't even see tags!

BESW

You're posting on Blender and it'll have different user patterns than Role-playing Games which is what the people in this chat tend to be most familiar with.

RBlong2us

ah, ok

how can I change it from Blender to some other category?

ope, got it.

thanks for the help!

Hot RPG Questions

02:44

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Shalvenay

03:26

TIL: mithral apparently is nonstick?

Powerdork

03:48

@Shalvenay The waffle iron in Pathfinder?

Shalvenay

@Powerdork that might be where its from? I'm not 100% sure XD it came up in an IC conversation I overheard on a NWN server XD

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04:52

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Bardic Wizard

05:36

Does anyone know a good, free and easy to learn, system for running a game centered around a journey through a magical land or a game centering around being theater kids sneaking around backstage?

My not-blood sister, my actual sister, me, and the rest of the kids I did ballet with are doing two games this weekend, at my suggestion, since originally this was going to be Nutcracker weekend and we would be scampering around the theater together so we wanted to do something based around the nutcracker and around our happy memories of running around backstage trying to avoid getting caught playing cards

Then I realized after I volunteered to coordinate it that d&d is both too complex and not the right system for either, trying to do it in Risus is a recipe for comedic messiness, and Fate is also a little awkward for this idea

BESW

Check out Journey Jam, maybe.

TheDragonOfFlame

which of those two are you looking for lol

Bardic Wizard

@TheDragonOfFlame both, they’re two separate sessions effectively but with the same people and probably back to back

TheDragonOfFlame

ah

bubblegumshoe might work for the backstage one, from what I know of it

BESW

It's not free or fast to learn.

There's the free Wanderhome playkit, of course.

TheDragonOfFlame

05:41

@BESW ah right

@BardicWizard maybe that roll to see if you are wearing shoes thingy?

2 days ago, by BESW

Mar 4 '14 at 12:54, by BESW

And Roll for Shoes is a dead simple system we regularly use for impromptu play; the whole system is only seven bullet points, and it requires no preparation.

BESW

Together Among the Stars by Takuma Okada. A tabletop roleplaying game about exploring space, experiencing wondrous sights, and recording your findings. Uses a standard 52 card deck and a six-sided die. For 2 players.

Bardic Wizard

The problem is I’m the only one who has played more than a couple sessions of rpgs — I got a couple people interested in stuff during the Nutcracker I Hated Most Of All when I had too much free time, but that was only pick up games of Risus using the rules I printed out for school (that’s a really long story) and it was awkward cause everyone except me had calls while we were playing

@TheDragonOfFlame that’s really comedic though; I’m looking for something a little more focused I think given the setting we want

TheDragonOfFlame

@BardicWizard I thought you would want comedic for the back stage thingy

Bardic Wizard

@BESW oh, that’s fascinating-looking

BESW

It'd be easy to re-tool for a fantasy setting.

Bardic Wizard

05:55

@TheDragonOfFlame not really but to explain that, it’s a bit of a story.

Basically we’ve been doing ballet together since before kindergarten, when we were all in the 4-6 year old class for nutcracker. In our program, by the time you’re out of the 4-6 class and the 5-10 class and into either the 8-12 class or the 9-18 class for the first time, you’re not forced to stay with the minder backstage as long as you behave.

Of course we took advantage of that the first year we were in the 9-18 class and started our annual tradition of spending as much time not in the black box (or the adjacent flower-flake/snowflakes/flowers dressing room) as possible.

We tend to spend dress rehearsal playing cards behind the ramps in the auditorium (and pretending we’re stretching or warming up), and the performances we spend playing cards or drawing or whatever as a group, alternating between the dressing room, the wardrobe room, backstage, the lobby, the set storage room, and pretty much every hideyhole that exists there

BESW

I have a suggestion for a bittersweet reminisce. There's a hack of Among the Stars by Caro Asercion, for returning to old familiar places and finding memories in them.

Bardic Wizard

It’s a bit cat-and-mouse like in that if we’re caught we get in trouble, a bit bonding, and a bit us being too giggly for our own good (case in point: the Rosin Incident aka The Twentieth [my name] Explosion Incident)

@BESW that’s good, and we could all play as ourselves, which saves argument. I’m gonna propose it to the others and see whether we’re willing to try it

BESW

Alone in the Station Remnants is designed for solo play, but so was Among the Stars at first; Together Among the Stars is a simple multiplayer modification so just apply the same concepts to Station Remnants.

Bardic Wizard

06:10

@BESW got it. Thanks a lot!

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Hot RPG Questions

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BESW

09:48

@HotRPGQuestions Flammable ones, I'd presume.

AncientSwordRage

10:02

@HotRPGQuestions I'm imaging reflavouring these as mantra rays now...

Powerdork

What's good?

AncientSwordRage

@Powerdork to roast your beans, to see it ground before you, and to hear the percolation of your coffee.

SmokeDetector

11:05

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in link text in body, bad keyword in title, potentially bad asn for hostname in body, potentially bad keyword in username (264): Top and Best CBSE Affiliated International School in Noida by mayoor seo on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

AncientSwordRage

11:41

On-Sale: Ancestry and Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e by Eugene Marshall is a 32-page set of alternate PC creation rules for D&D 5e that replace Race with Ancestry, Culture, and Mixed Heritage.

BESW

14:12

Can we make "Rusted Swords & Nice Boys: Gender in Sleepaway" mandatory reading before anyone answers or comments on that post?

user15026

14:42

That would be nice.

user15026

@BESW this is very good.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I should read that!

Some interesting RPGs here: dicebreaker.com/amp/categories/roleplaying-game/news/…

(Jiangshi and Wanderhome are mentioned, plus others)

The LotR one implies got can play characters from regions not seen in the books, which has piqued my interest

Urban Shadows 2E might be a good replacement for CofD games for me

@BESW that's s good read, but it feels far from comprehensive on the subject, not that I think anything could be.

Perhaps it's because Gender is so personal, but I'm not clicking with the gender options in either list, so I'm struggling to view them from either authors POV

Bardic Wizard

15:14

@BESW I wish we could. That’s a good article!

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov Drizzt bluffs that he's a shape changed dragon in one novel, based on his purple eye colour

NautArch

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AncientSwordRage

15:38

Did any of the RPGs in the dicebreaker article appeal to anyone else?

NautArch

16:17

Is there a mod about?

for rpg.se? sorry @AncientSwordRage :P

Someone_Evil

What's up?

NautArch

@Someone_Evil got a sec for a private room?

Someone_Evil

Sure

AncientSwordRage

16:32

@NautArch :p

KorvinStarmast

18:39

Arrgh, I have a Command Spell issue ... Third level enemy caster is behind a door. Heroes burst through the door, and as a reaction the caster give the Command Flee! (command spell) and the two heroes both fail the save. They both flee. The snag: 20 feet away (in the direction that the heroes came from) is a chasm that is 200 feet deep/cliff's edge. When they flee, do they go over the cliff, or not? "Flee" isn't a suicidal command, per se, but how far does one take this?

Unlike Fear that might require a max move away, I am not sure that Command is that powerful. What have you all done in cases like this? The various Q&A are kind of mixed in their responses.

I am DM, the party are the Heroes.

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast I'd say the party starts to climb down the cliff or flee along its edge?

so not suicidal, but they're going to continue to try to follow the command/circumnavigate the obstacle

KorvinStarmast

@Shalvenay Great: they have strung two ropes across the chasm. Would you have them try to use the ropes to get farther away? (It's a crude rope bridge that includes a rope of climbing in its construction)

That will precipitate an athletics check ... if I force them to do that ...

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast yeah, most likely

KorvinStarmast

OK, we'll see how it goes .. I am just thinking through what I think the next encounter is. She's gonna have spiritual weapon up, and won't be using augury - so I'l either haveher bless an additional ally/grunt, or, I'll have her do a dual command, with that second level slot.

Akixkisu

19:01

@KorvinStarmast I'd let them flee to the end of the cliff and stop there.

KorvinStarmast

@Akixkisu OK, your take is "command does not overcome self preservation" ... Right?

Akixkisu

@KorvinStarmast when you flee you don't lose your head and take exceptional risks, that you are well aware of, to get away from someone, you do so within the reason of self-preservation. Yes.

It is moving away as fast as possible, not as far as possible :)

NautArch

@KorvinStarmast I like @Shalvenay's response.

KorvinStarmast

OK, good inputs all ... I have about a week to arrive at a decision, thanks. :)

Akixkisu

Fleeing along the edge is also logical, searching for a path to get away.

NautArch

19:08

^^

backs to the edge would be fun, too

but NPCs would likely try and push

and that's Not Fun when it results in a TPK.

Akixkisu

Yup, you want the spell to be "lose a turn".

NautArch

do not collect $200

Glazius

19:28

Win a free trip to Tahiti? swordscomic.com/comic/CCCLX

KorvinStarmast

19:44

@Glazius naaah, boycotting air travel for the time being, don't have time to get there by boat. (comic got a grin out of me...)

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TheDragonOfFlame