TRPG General Chat

12:29 AM

@GcL that lightning bolt ricochet was my nemesis in BG2

GcL

1:09 AM

@Carcer Yeah, you line up a really nice shot and think, "Ha! I totally got em!" Then bam... got yourself too

BG2 was the last 2nd edition game? NWN was 3rd because it had all the cleave and crit range feats, correct?

Shalvenay

@GcL correct that NWN is 3.x

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2:44 AM

Across RPGSEA, a searchable database of Southeast Asian TRPGs, is getting a lot of updates in both content and features.

Rearguard by Ben Roswell, Caro Asercion. Five revolutionary playbooks for Beam Saber

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KorvinStarmast

4:36 AM

@MarkWells interesting take, and I find I agree with at least some of that thought.

@JohnP sell for the cash?

NautArch

@KorvinStarmast So...just made a deal for my soul to get a Rod of Lordly Might

5:16 AM

CATS LITE by Kazumi Chin. Nothing Like Your Dad's Generic TTRPG System. CATS LITE is a generic TTRPG adventure system that asks players to hybridize, bastardize, and queer received genres and archetypes of Western cultural imagination.

5:27 AM

Kazumi Chin wrote a short twitter thread about "disidentification, and what it means to both take on an disown an archetype," in relation to CATS LITE.

5:47 AM

@TheDragonOfFlame Just spitballing here, but perhaps the idea was that the party'd flee?

I've never really felt right running away in DnD though... I wish it was a mechanical part of the system with reasonably well-defined implications

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7:02 AM

trogdor

yeah it's among,.. a litany of things I wish D&D did differently

7:26 AM

same, yup x)

Doesn't really matter much to me personally anymore, I don't think I'm going back to DnD 5e

been away long enough it's just easier to try to start something new

8:20 AM

@GcL I have a distinct memory of using it in a corridor in I think Irenicus's dungeon, where it bounced real weird off the level geometry and ended up hitting Jaheira about a dozen times

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1:39 PM

@Carcer I loved it

@AncientSwordRage Jaheira didn't

@Carcer Although she's less grumpy (?) in the sequel, she still disliked most things

Yeah, she's never exactly bright and cheerful.

@Carcer A lightning bolt to the face will do that to you

it'll brighten you up for a moment

1:41 PM

My only full playthrough was a druid, so I attempted her personal relationship 'questline', which was glitched and you needed to hack the console to make work

whoops

the BGII romance options were... not great

Q: Does the wording of Darkvision align with accepted rules?

@Carcer romance in RPGs feels odd to me, computer or otherwise. At least they do now.

@Carcer I did use a mod once that added similar quests for other NPCs

Even calling them quests feels icky

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Hot RPG Questions

3:16 PM

For this question let's consider Dwarf racial feature Darkvision although the same wording is used for a number of different races. The Dwarven Darkvision racial feature reads: Darkvision Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim ligh...

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Powerdork

5:00 PM

I don't like how that question focuses on darkvision. It feels to me like the problem the user has is with general vision rules and their lack of definition.

RevenantBacon

I agree. Also, the addition of a comma does not in any way change how the 60' distance limit applies to the second part of the ability.

Mark Wells

@Powerdork The question is pretty clear that their problem is just the syntax of the 60' distance limit. And I can see their point (the distance limit is placed after "in darkness" and before "and", suggesting it applies only to that branch of the sentence), but that strikes me as willfully bad reading comprehension.

Mark Wells

5:27 PM

@kviiri Speculation: modern D&D is bad at running-away mechanics for the same reason it's bad at handling lingering combat injuries: it's outside genre convention. Lightweight Silver-Age-comics heroic fantasy doesn't have running away.

Medix2

6:03 PM

I'm not super confident in my recent duplicate closure so I'm ready to listen to counter arguments

Oh they deleted... hmmm

6:41 PM

@MarkWells Interesting theory, though I'm not sure if I buy it as a primary cause

One might also suggest wargames as a partial reason, similarly: in a trad wargame of this scale, there's only small-scale tactical retreats: you can't concede the battlefield except by surrender of the game.