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AncientSwordRage

00:29

@ThomasMarkov s/simulacrum/5e D&D/

@BESW this makes more sense when you follow the link

BESW

? What's confusing about the way I've phrased it?

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I was wondering how I would use it in an RPG game

BESW

It made me think of the tumblr screenshot about the tiny dragon whose horde is a single coin.

AncientSwordRage

I have seen that!

😁

I can imagine it being really attached to that individual coin.

BESW

And it's also a good reminder that currency isn't just little bits of stamped metal you can slip into a pocket.

@AncientSwordRage I'm thinking either the dragon enchanted the tampang buaya so it could have a friend, or the tampang buaya is the dragon and it's its own hoard.

AncientSwordRage

00:38

@BESW this was the most interesting bit for me

@BESW I'm imagining the coin missed the dragon enough that the tampang buaya woke up to help reunite the two of them

Adeptus

@BESW There was a whole story thread about that. How you could buy something with the coin, but the dragon would go with it... so the dragon ended up being passed around the marketplace, from stall to customer to another stall.

BESW

@AncientSwordRage I ship it

BESW

01:38

Roland B made a twitter megathread of small press publishers and indie RPG storefronts and asks for help making it more global.

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BESW

03:35

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BESW

04:36

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AncientSwordRage

07:19

@BESW my goblin was called "table index is out of bounds"

Sounds like my kind of goblin! I once had a Dwarf in my friends Java Swing Applet game called "Gridbag, son of Object" which I found quite amusing

BESW

09:43

AncientSwordRage

11:34

@BESW looks awesome, but not working on my phone

Does anybody have experience with Hard Wired Island RPG?

BESW

Yeah, I had to let it sit and load for a loong time, even on Desktop.

SmokeDetector

12:13

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, blacklisted website in answer (266): How can you use Primary Contact for early access to feats or prestige classes? by Christina on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose @ThomasMarkov)

Thomas Markov

12:29

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They are sending out field operatives disguised as new users :P

BESW

14:26

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KorvinStarmast

15:11

@ThomasMarkov It's all part of the deception plan, or as our Russian friends would call it, maskirovka

NautArch

17:13

@Medix2 This question really showcases why actually having an at-table issue makes a much better question.

Thomas Markov

Yeah, it's a good question

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov It is!

"This should be an issue, right?" - "Not in actual tableplay, no."

But it reads tricky as hell

Although, I did have a similar build mechanic in my Iron Kingdoms rifleman.

And really the counter to that is, as it is here, is send in melee.

Worldbuilding or here?

Thomas Markov

@NautArch I flagged for mods to migrate.

Medix2

I do think that could be an actual problem question. The easiest solution is to have enemies use an action that is otherwise almost never utilized and is commonly forgotten

NautArch

@Medix2 Yeah, but the odds of that happening at a table are still pretty small.

Medix2

17:25

Yeah, it's a very setup heavy scenario

NautArch

And if it happens, it's probably a good use of the environment (as you said!)

Medix2

And at that point, forts are designed to give the attackers disadvantages and the defenders advantages so that would be fine by me anyway

NautArch

It's sort of like the biathlon.

Run, drop, shoot, pop up, run.

Medix2

I forgot there was a biathlon not on skis

NautArch

@Medix2 And they'd likely have 1/2 to 3/4 cover.

Medix2

17:26

Oh wait, apparently the summer one involves roller skiing. So it just never involves running, phew

NautArch

Which reminds me, I need to make a defense encounter at some pont :)

@Medix2 I much prefer my reading of Roller Skating.

doppelgreener

20:12

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Q: Why did all sites turn orange?

What happened here? It used to be blue.

bug status-review design

Every stack site has been orange'd, it's not just you. It's probably an error. More info on Meta.SE

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Someone_Evil

20:39

Yup, is error. No need for panic

NautArch

@Someone_Evil Did someone say panic?

Where's my towel?!

bobble

My brain's automatic response to "Where's ___" is "In the Twilight Zone"

KorvinStarmast

21:05

@NautArch suggest this whole discussion be moved to here be dragons ...

Someone_Evil

→ 36 messages moved to Here There Be Dragons

NautArch

@Someone_Evil faster on the draw than I

Someone_Evil

@NautArch Pun foul?

NautArch

@Someone_Evil /facepalm

didn't even realize

But back to the other topic, I've never done a defense encounter (or a siege one.)

Someone_Evil

What scale are you most interested in?

Thomas Markov

21:17

@Someone_Evil fair lol

NautArch

@Someone_Evil That's what I'm not sure about or how to make it work.

I like the idea of a large scale castle defense.

Someone_Evil

I've been a player in a "defend the family of commoners from lightning wolves" (Protector turret FTW) come to think of it

I think the main thing you need to make it feel like defence is a location based stake

KorvinStarmast

@NautArch There is an encounter in the Saltmarsh book that is basically a sustained defense encounter. We have not run it yet.

NautArch

@Someone_Evil But also give them opportunities to use siege weapons/sally forth, etc.

Someone_Evil

Sure, as means to that end. But I've had a PC jump of a ship to punch sharks (didn't go well) so I'd say actually making a defence encounter tick takes some doing

Cooper

21:27

If I was running a defense encounter, I might go the route of "just do something else for a session", since it's so easy for players to get restless and cause trouble when defending. (And I've found that occasionally bringing in completely different games can make for a really memorable and fun experience for the players, especially if the mechanics for resolving X situation would be kind of boring in the rules of the actual TTRPG.)

NautArch

@Someone_Evil Ha! Yeah, I had the same. What is it with jumping from moving boats to attack sharks.

Someone_Evil

Unrelated; but keeping an eye on the stream of badges taught me about something cool: What is the Oberoni Fallacy?

Cooper

@Someone_Evil Ooh, love that! That should be on the list of required reading before posting an answer, imo

NautArch

@Cooper Would an example be "Of course, you as a DM can always rule as you like?"

Cooper

@NautArch If that's the only answer to the question, I think that's an example of the fallacy, but I know that when I include that part in an answer, it's to head off any commenters wondering why I haven't acknowledged what the DM can do

Someone_Evil

21:40

I think the answers which run afoul of that get downvoted/deleted anyhow, because they tend to not actually answer the question but just go "but the DM can just change it"

NautArch

@Cooper Ha! That runs afoul of users who don't feel it's necessary to acknowledge that :P

Someone_Evil

There's a time and a place for that, often dictated by the goals and concerns of the question

Cooper

@NautArch Ah, I don't see it as a thing other people need to do, but I tend to do it to try to get ahead of nitpicking that can't add anything of value to the answer

Which is a concern that's maybe a bit unfounded on this particular site, where people tend to be a bit better behaved, and where I'm intentionally vague about my gender, but after enough times getting nitpicked by people who assume that I must be a moron because I didn't mention XYZ niche edge case that wasn't relevant to my point, I've started to try to get ahead of that sort of thing, yknow?

doppelgreener

22:41

Oberoni fallacy isn't "you can do whatever," it's specifically "you can fix it, therefore it isn't broken."

(if it's not broken, what's being fixed exactly?)

NautArch

@Cooper Fair enough, and I can feel the frustration in your words - i'm sorry.

@doppelgreener Sounds a lot like solopsism (i think?)

Someone_Evil

@NautArch Uhm, google suggests that's a mispelling. Did you mean Solipsism? In which case I feel like I'm missing a beat

NautArch

22:56

@Someone_Evil ah, yes. Misspelled. So with the idea that only the self can be known also is that outside the self is always unknown.

And therefore you can't know anything.

Aka the philosopher who had a bad trip.

doppelgreener

@NautArch That's surprisingly plausible

Ben

23:10

Morning all

bobble

Anything to report?

Ben

Plans are being made for QLD to recover the "worlds largest lamington" back from NZ. Otherwise, nothing major on the timeline

bobble

Roger that.

Ben

23:23

How goes severyone else?

bobble

First round of AP scores drops tomorrow

Ben

AP?

bobble

Advanced Placement exams.

My scores determine whether I can skip some classes in university or not

Ben

Ohhh exciting

bobble

I think I only need a score of 4 (on a 5-point scale) for credit, but I'd like to get a round of 5s of course :P

Ben

23:31

If it means anything, I think I'd get a 2... at best

XD

So I'm sure you'll do great

MikeQ

From what I remember, the AP exams are all graded differently. Like a 50% on AP chemistry counted as a 5, the highest possible score.

bobble

I think it's a ~70% on AP chem, or it was when I took it

now, then, I was shooting for a perfect hehe did not get it

but yeah, you pay a bunch of money for the privilege of sitting in a giant room full of nervous students for four hours, then you go home and wait months to get a single number - no explanation, no breakdown (with the exception of AP Calculus BC)

MikeQ

70% does sound more reasonable. It's been many eons so I forget. None of those standardized test skills really mattered after university.

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