> 'Shiner By mixing alcohol and moonlight, you can use Crafts to create advantages in the form of potent illusions. These illusions explode when in the presence of fire or bright light, inflicting your Crafts rank in stress on everything in the zone (if the illusion aspect had any boosts on it, you must spend them to increase the stress dealt).
In the same way as a "physics engine" allows video games to simulate how things interact with each other through mass and leverage, a "chemistry engine" is a simulation of other interactions, such as a giant pink elephant suddenly catching on fire.
specifically it put me in mind of the shenanigans you can get up to or have inflicted on you in the tactical combat of the Divinity: Original Sin series.
I have been thinking about various quintessence sources and I was thinking on how a mage could reliably generate quintessence on a weekly basis without a node. The idea I came up with was a pastorship.
In MtA the idea of belief being power is emphasized quite a bit.
So what I want to ask is: Is i...
@bobble the first law of high school is that you are never sufficiently caffeinated until your friend has commented on how goofy/strange/weird you’re acting and asked how much caffeine you have in your system
And even then you are only barely sufficiently caffeinated
@BESW This sounds like a very useful trait usable only at night outdoors. Vampire alcoholic illusionist? Can vampires even get drunk? Do they need to drink drunk people's blood for it? Is the stress the mechanical effect of Shiner getting people drunk? Hmmm, what do moonlight illusions do to lycanthropes? So many questions.
My brain chemistry is wack. I have nearly zero ability to feel tired. I still get tired, but the first sign is when I start falling asleep on the spot (eyes closing of their own accord), and even that is fairly easy to fight off if I can move around a bit.
@bobble I typically don’t do coffee, but I do drink tea sometimes, and usually it’s either absolutely no caffeine or like six cups of earl gray tea at once
> Moonshine Bottle You start each session with the marked condition Bottle of moonshine, which lets you use moonshine magic without natural moonlight. After a failed moonshine magic roll you may unmark the condition to re-roll one of your dice with an ordinary d6 and bath the zone in Moonlight for the rest of the scene.
Actors aren’t allowed food in costume so they don’t get any coffee, and somehow that extended to “no coffee in the wings” which the SM has complained about at length before
So where I live has become affected heavily enough by COVID that it has (in my eyes) legitimized a custom mask purchase, rather than just a disposable one. It arrived today.
@doppelgreener Would you mind giving a helping hand on that post? The recent edit was a move in the wrong direction, and I've got other things on my mind atm.
Naturally the entire story of Power Rangers is something totally different spun from whole cloth, with all the out-of-costume scenes just being something the Western studio produced, interspersed with dubbed fight scenes from Super Sentai.
This question, from a relatively inexperienced user, asked "Would you use this (homebrew) spell?"
Thomas Markov rightly identified this as opinion-based and bad-subjective, explained that the question type was not one we used, linked to stack policy on questions to be avoided, suggested that the ...
They specifically called out whitespace as an issue in that update...and have done nothing really to resolve the core whitespace problem the design causes (beyond what they did removing the Ignored/Watched tags)
@doppelgreener The colour they have chosen for the watched tag is going to be particularly eye-bleeding if someone is using a dark-mode theme, but on rpg.se I don't think it's too bad. They still have a problem with how they are presenting the stats, as well as the stupid amount of whitespace (imo), but it's significantly better than their first iteration.
i don't think coloring the tag this way is the right move; it could equally be given a thicker border or something, or a slightly prominent but not this prominent shade
@bobble True, but it's a design choice they are already comfortable with as a company (since they did it on the main meta for the network), so I can see them being much more receptive to just rolling that out everywhere (or something similar)
@doppelgreener Yeah, I don't like the colour they chose, but I can live with it (particularly since at home I can just have a userscript make the change to a more pleasing colour)
Is there... a good reason they can't add "old mode" for the people that like it? I can see the argument "but then we have to add an old mode for everything we change and that's stupid," but... it looks like some people like the new mode at least a little, and most like the old.
bug
Unexpected behavior when removing tags from watched and ignored.
I was able to create this interesting situation:
Add a tag to your watch list.
Add that tag directly to your ignore list
Remove that tag from your ignore list.
The result will be a tag with the watched color, the ignored eye ...
Watching/Ignoring overrides the red coloring of moderator-only tags.
Moderator-only tags are usually red, but watching and ignoring them overrides this:
I think instead it should look something like this when you have a moderator tag watched or ignored, preserving the red color but adding the a...
AS evidence for the fact that there is nothing new under the sun....I went looking back through the history of the greatest hits page, and I found the old design of SE from 10 years ago in this post
We have been trying to figure out ways to utilize anon feedback. One idea was to use the information to find questions that are disproportionately popular with the anon and low rep users (aka. The Long Tail).
In particular, look for questions that got a large number of anonymous feedback in rel...
If the user were specifically trying to accomplish something, and was unaware of tools in published materials that were available to solve it, and so they homebrewed a spell for it, then they already have a niche in mind and wouldn’t be asking for one. The user’s posted question is almost-literally the polar opposite of the one you’re claiming they “meant to ask,” and that, to me, is preposterous. — KRyan7 mins ago
Have I missed something in my interpretation of Kirt’s question or the main site question it references?
@nitsua60 The days of forums do seem to be waning, but I don't think Discord is so deep into crypto that the platform itself can be considered web 3.0.
Upcoming crowdfund: The Station: A ZiMo TTRPG by Pidj Sorensen. Collaborate to answer prompts about a station, a long-awaited train and the people around them. A GMless worldbuilding prompt game.
Romance Jam hosted by BrambleBerry. During the month of February, craft a game that has a major or minor theme of Romance.
BJ Games wrote a twitter thread about responsible worldbuilding in the face of "the uncomfortable truth" that "Many creatures of our childhood stories ARE the result of othering."
While modifying the Ghosts of Saltmarsh I realized there was no spell for bringing back a sunken ship, so I decided to make a spell.
Spectral Vessel
4th level necromancy
Casting Time: two hours
Range: 30 feet of destruction/sinking site
Components: V, S, M (sailcloth of at least 5 feet by 5 feet,...
bug
Unexpected behavior when removing tags from watched and ignored.
I was able to create this interesting situation:
Add a tag to your watch list.
Add that tag directly to your ignore list
Remove that tag from your ignore list.
The result will be a tag with the watched color, the ignored eye ...
