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BESW

00:19

Caution: there's a Kickstarter for an "anime" styled 5e variant, and (quite aside from "anime" being a medium not a genre, it's like having a game that uses the style of "books") the project lead has a history of abandoning projects and leaving creators unpaid.

Bardic Wizard

04:52

@Glazius google books is blocked on the device I have access to in the middle of the night

@Mithical at the time I went to bed: a pad of sticky notes worth. I ended up bugging a punny friend for the rest (though I didn’t use the last pad of sticky notes)

You can’t have enough bad puns in general though

SmokeDetector

05:28

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword in link text in answer, bad keyword in username, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (336): Difference between writing a one-off scenario and writing a quest for a campaign? by essay writing service on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

BESW

TTRPG Design Lenses by hexavexagon. A deck of design lenses for designing and playtesting ttrpgs or other physical games

Axoren

08:54

Pour a holy water out for my boy. Level 7 Cleric of Mystra got Intellect Devoured. Nat 1 vs. Devour Intellect, Nat 1 vs. Body Thief.

And of course, my character was the only one who knew about the Time Conduit under Icewind Dale and now there's an evil body snatcher working for the Illithids that has that knowledge.

That Time Conduit thing shouldn't be a spoiler for any modules, it's custom and just references older WotC content that describes a Time Conduit in the region.

Also, we failed to thwart a thinktank of Intellect Devourers from body snatching an entire council's worth of political leaders because I got stunned and was unable to call for help. Druid is NOT sure that she killed it with Moonbeam before it could teleport into my brain, but just the idea that Intellect Devourers are about has instilled major paranoia in her and then from her onto the party.

We will now see if the Intellect Devourer can escape a "just in-case mincing".

If it does, my build is actually DANGEROUSLY strong against my party, and could result in one of the strongest villains we've ever faced if it manages to regroup with the Illithids.

Thomas Markov

10:20

@BESW I cant really think of how that would work.

Like, just 3rd party 5e material with anime-style art in the book?

BESW

11:56

That is also an issue, but probably the least of them. I think being run by someone with a history of not paying creators comes first, followed by not seeming to have anybody on the team who's actually involved in the cultures or industries in question.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (34): How do I calculate the chance to hit a given AC? by Nekomaru on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

NautArch

13:41

o/

goodguy5

I've been pretty MIA. everyone good in here?

NautArch

@goodguy5 Doing pretty good. We lost our old dog, but we got a new puppy.

How y'all doing? How's goodtoddler?

goodguy5

Goodtoddler is quickly becoming goodchild.

Talking (mostly), singing (ish), reasoning (kinda), active (very).

Sorry to hear about the old dog. loss is always sad, but a new puppy is exciting

NautArch

@goodguy5 He'd been declining for awhile, and we've been looking for a couple of years for the right puppy. Literally a few days after he died, we got a notification that the place we rescued the old guy from 11 years ago had puppies of the size and type we were looking for (that we'd not seen one we were interestd in in 2 years from anywhere.)

It felt too soon, but it was clearly the right decision. Although we sway between happy and sad right now.

goodguy5

sometimes it works out that way

Shalvenay

13:52

hey there btw @NautArch

goodguy5

It's enough to make someone believe in things.

what type of puppy, if I may ask?

NautArch

@Shalvenay howdy howdy shal!

@goodguy5 She's a hound mix. Tricolor and looks a lot like a black and tan hound.

Should be 80-100lbs when fully grown.

22 lbs at 12 weeks right now.

goodguy5

alright, now to cross reference all of the hound adoptions in the US in the past few weeks so that I can.....

;)

NautArch

hhehe, i'm pretty sure there's more than enough info in this chat to dox me.

goodguy5

Don't threaten me with a good time

and isn't it doxx?

BaconyRevanant

13:56

@NautArch I still miss my old girl sometimes, and we lost her over a year ago

NautArch

@BaconyRevanant I'm sorry :( We like to plant trees with their ashes, so we're looking forward to planting a couple apple trees in a couple months.

BaconyRevanant

My dad just keeps the ashes on the mantle

goodguy5

I just realized we don't have a plan for when our cats die

I mean, they're only 8. but still

Thomas Markov

@goodguy5 You may not even be half way. My parent's cat is 17.

goodguy5

I've encountered 20-year cats

Thomas Markov

14:04

Appreantly the oldest domestic cat ever was 38 when she finally moved on.

goodguy5

@goodguy5 ah it's usually "doxxing" or "doxxed", but "dox" with one x when just the word

38 year old cat wow. that's potentially a 3 generation cat

Thomas Markov

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Shalvenay

@NautArch was wondering if now would be a good time to ping you on Discord re: a boat thing

Akixkisu

@NautArch How would you feel about a meta that proposes to deem meta topics framed in a way that criticises a curation practice in the question instead of asking about discussing a case as off-topic?

Thomas Markov

We either need to establish meaningful policy concerning curation practices or agree that all curation practices are created equal.

NautArch

14:23

@Shalvenay Sure, I'm about to walk the pups, but i'll see what I can do. It's been awhile :)

@Akixkisu That'd be interesting to see, but I like the idea of talking about how to do sometihng in a specific case rather than in general.

Akixkisu

@NautArch why the distinction?

Walking pups sounds like a good time.

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov You wanna downvote and delete this one?

Thomas Markov

Already did lol, I flagged it like an hour ago.

NautArch

@Akixkisu I think a question of "what should I/we do here" is better than "How should we approach all of these"

I'm not sure I 100% believe this, lately I feel like I'm becoming a Stack Libertarian.

Akixkisu

Good call on the history.se question.

Medix2

14:38

@Akixkisu Are you the one adding close votes to the questions you recently edited?

Hmmm, actually, I suppose I can just wait for them to enter the review queue and vote to leave open; though they'll probably be closed by then since I'll be at work, ah well XD

Akixkisu

@Medix2 If I edit a question in the review queue, then it is extremly unlikely that I will add a close vote. If I recall correctly, then I didn't add close votes to the ones that I edited earlier.

Thomas Markov

@Akixkisu lol the meta I linked uses it as an example of an off topic question and it was never closed.

@Medix2 Which ones do you think should remain open?

Medix2

This does not feel opinion-based to me: "What are the advantages of using a d100? Why would you use it instead of the 2 d10 approach?" there is room for experienced answers from those who have actually used them or look into the mathematics behind those dice

Akixkisu

@Medix2 Yup, it might be a duplicate question. I think my edit should remove doubts about whether it is opinion-based or not.

Medix2

Though I know I will never have an easy time understanding what makes a subjective question have good answers so yeah... there's also that problem

Thomas Markov

14:41

Maybe, I think it's opinion based. But our disagreement is community moderation working as intended, and I affirm your opinion as valid!

NautArch

@Medix2 already downvoted. I have no more to give!

Thomas Markov

@NautArch You can also contribute NAA flags :P

Medix2

Yeah the whole POB close reason runs into a lot of confusing "But is it opinion-based? What is opinion-based? Isn't everything opinion-based?" philosophical mumbo-jumbo that I don't need XD

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Yeah, i'm not sure about that. It is an "answer", jsut an extremely bad one.

@Medix2 Think of it more like "Can I answer this with my experience?" If you can't, don't answer.

Akixkisu

@NautArch That seems based on assumed knowledge.

I don't think it is an answer.

Thomas Markov

14:43

There comes a point where an answer is so brief that even a technically valid response to the question isn't an answer.

Medix2

It's not like I have multiple Meta posts about good-subjective/bad-subjective and history-of-gaming / designer-intent and opinion-based / answerable... totally nothing like that. (Note: I have several)

Akixkisu

It makes a correct statement.

An answer that validates an assumption would be good, but it doesn't - it merely states a yes this is.

NautArch

I'm fine flaggin, got no issues with that.

Thomas Markov

Either way, it needs one more downvote before we can delete it.

NautArch

Is that d100 a dupe? rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/33935/…

The one on active can likely be duped to above.

but just checking with y'all before the hammer falls.

no hammer, no gold, my bad.

Akixkisu

14:49

Btw, if anyone is curious - I went through 134 comments were I linked to the [tour] and of those users that I greeted this way 8 had the badge for taking the tour.

Thomas Markov

@NautArch dupe looks good to me.

Akixkisu

@NautArch that was the one I was thinking about, but my brain didn't come up with the right search words.

Medix2

@Akixkisu I honestly don't expect anybody to click through those links :(

Akixkisu

I have no idea of the click through rate or if that was something they decided to do later.

I do know that none of them had that badge.

Before I posted the comment.

NautArch

I don't think this should be reopened

Akixkisu

14:57

@NautArch Why? The question itself is valid.

The context is outdated.

Thomas Markov

Looks fine to me.

NautArch

@Akixkisu I don't think the question was asked in good faith. If someone wants to know that, they can ask it.

There's a bell in the back of my head ringing about it, but I don't remember the details.

Akixkisu

@NautArch sure, but it is a good question, and if somebody did that, then I would vtc as a duplicate of thatq.

NautArch

@Akixkisu UI think the new would could be closed as a dupe of a reask if someone reasks.

But I kinda doubt they will.

I also recently noticed we lost markovchain.

unless that's actually @ThomasMarkov.

Thomas Markov

:P

@NautArch Whatever the context was 4 years ago, I don't see how it's relevant now. The user has been deleted, and in itself, the question is valid and the answer is good.

Medix2

15:11

I don't think we can delete bad questions with good answers?

Thomas Markov

Also that.

Medix2

At least I've asked about that before and was told not to

NautArch

I never scrolled down.

I'm not too worried about it, though.

But I see no good reason to reopen it.

Medix2

One reason is so dupes can point to it

NautArch

I think if we get a dupe we can handle it then.

I'm not going to vote to close if it gets reopened, though.

Medix2

15:14

Yeah, fair XD

goodguy5

ugggghhh...... I'm such a cement head

I brought down an internal tool - kinda.

I requested a dns alias and the guy thought I wanted to change the existing alias to the new one, so now none of them work.

Akixkisu

16:01

@Medix2 There is nothing wrong with the question itself, but if you are all voting to keep it closed to to its context, then we all ought to delete it due to its context.

Regardless of the good answer

I'm fine with either outcome as long as one of them is reopen and treat as unproblematic or the other is deleted as problematic.

BaconyRevanant

19:24

So I'm excited, I just landed an appointment to get vaccinated tomorrow

Shalvenay

20:06

@BaconyRevanant nice

SmokeDetector

21:24

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (36): Is the clothing listed in your equipment intended to be the clothes you're wearing or extra clothes that you've packed? by monicablanc on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

BESW

23:01

The TTRPG Safety Toolkit got an update, summarized in this twitter thread.

Strange Changeling Child by Lexi the Fae. A Solo TTRPG about Autism, Masking, and Fairies

Orion D Black wrote a twitter thread "on the topic of Actual Plays, specifically about safety and what the baseline for protecting/respecting the cast and crew should look like, and why."

nitsua60

23:37

@NautArch That's one step from my current position: Stack Hermit.

BESW

@nitsua60 Stack hermit?

nitsua60

@BESW Yeah, that's a pretty good picture of how sociable I feel by the end of some weeks =)

Yuuki

The campaign book tells me that it's designed for a 4-6 person party but doesn't really give much guidance on adjusting the encounters based on whether you have 4 players or 6.

BESW

If 5e encounter design is more like 3e than 4e (and all evidence suggests it is), then two or three charactersworth of difficulty is the minimum rounding error already.

Fine-tuning it more tightly than that probably requires specific knowledge of your PCs and their players.

nitsua60

23:54

@Yuuki IME (again, assuming D&D5e) the difference between 4PCs and 6PCs is well within the margin you can create as a GM with terrain, obstacles, monster tactics, &c.

BESW

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A: How can I decrease the difficulty of a scene on the fly?

My party also prefers to see dice rolled in the open, so I've had to learn to creatively doctor encounters myself. Change the Numbers Instead of changing your rolls, change the numbers you're adding to the rolls or comparing the rolls to. If you feel you have to justify this, perhaps monster's ...

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