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BESW
01:05
RED WEST [Playtest] by Briar Sovereign. A timewarped weird west hack of HEART: The City Beneath.
Kyle Tam wrote a twitter thread of "which [Zine Month] campaigns need the support of backers the most" "so that you can lend a helping hand to the little guy!"
Spire Quickstart by Rook and Decard. Streamlined rules, pre-generated characters and an exciting starter scenario for Spire: The City Must Fall.
"InThe News - Feat. Zinemonth, Solo but not Alone 2, Paper Miniature Jam and more" by C. A. Berlitz
"Black Creator Spotlight" event on DriveThruRPG. 100% of your purchase supports these titles for Black History Month (that means DTRPG says they won't take the slice of profits they usually take from each sale)
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01:45
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Q: How can a party move 10,000 pounds of gold?

aaron9eeeThe party has found the Vault of Dragons from the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist module. They've managed to play two of the BBEGs against each other and have neutralized the 'enemy' factor of the module, have also managed to fly under the radar of Waterdeep's authorities, and they want to keep all of th...

dnd-5e spells treasure waterdeep-dragon-heist
 
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BESW
BESW
02:58
Jeeyon Shim wrote a twitter thread about the implications of crowdfunding The Snow Queen RPG without the benefit of a platform's boosting algorithms.
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
03:23
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Chinese character in title, bad keyword in username, mostly non-latin body, mostly non-latin title (328): 郭瘟龟骗病复发，翻新花样再敛财 鸡体味盖特造假，只为磨刀割韭菜‭ by LiMengYan yan‭ on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose @ThomasMarkov @linksassin)
BESW
BESW
03:37
If anybody here uses Gumroad to buy books, brushes, or anything else, be aware that a lot of people are bailing from the platform right now because its manipulation and mistreatment of creators is escalating dramatically. Download your purchased stuff from /library before it's removed, and follow your favorite creators to whatever new platform they're moving to (a lot of people are going to KoFi or itch.io).
 
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AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
09:37
@BESW that sounds awful
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
09:57
My latest question is a little nebulous, so please forgive me if it needs a little TLC and heavy editing
BESW
BESW
10:08
@AncientSwordRage You may want to read about stunt families. Not what you're looking for, but a common building block toward that kind of synergy.
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@BESW interesting!
@BESW Hey, What’s That? Literally made me laugh out loud
I think part of it is the fact that your making two opposed/dissimilar things synergise and not just intended synergy
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
10:44
Like if you had a stunt or aspect even, that rewarded doing things publicly ... Something about not hiding your true self. Then combining it with Instant Cover is fun, and maybe adds more complications
Except that feels like it should be one stunt in fate, not two
 
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BESW
BESW
12:59
@AncientSwordRage Ah, gotcha. So in Fate Core type games that doesn't happen simply because we're expected to make stunts ourselves. "Discovering" unexpected mechanical synergy doesn't happen much there; though we can write stunts that are narratively quirky, it doesn't scratch the metagaming itch of twisting pre-made parts toward an unintended use.
However, games like DFRPG that come with lots of pre-made pieces to fit together, DO come with that "getting away with something" metagame.
[rummages] I've got an example in mind....
When I made my Bitey Things enemies for a DFRPG campaign (one of several stat blocks for toys that come to life and viciously attack anything they consider a threat to their kids), they got the Diminutive feature which made them very good at hiding but severely limited their ability to inflict actual stress with physical attacks.
So I also gave them the Venomous feature, which let them place a poisoned aspect on a target (NOT an attack) which would then let them make a non-size-adjusted attack every round. And the action to place poisoned could be made very VERY effective by having them use their bonuses to hiding to stack boosts like hidden to make sure it landed.
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@Exempt-Medic @ThomasMarkov is latest edit helpful?
Thomas Markov
Thomas Markov
Hmmm
Leaves room for an optimization based frame challenge.
“Be a bard or rogue with expertise and have +13 to four skills by level 9.”
BESW
BESW
13:14
So a Skylander toy leaps out from behind the sofa and gnaws ferociously at your ankle but only leaves a few scratches before you kick it off (Stealth +7 to create advantage: hidden which succeeds with style giving two boosts; then Fists +3 (+4 from boosts) to create advantage: poisoned);
but then you start feeling woozy and collapse (every round thereafter you roll Endurance vs the toy's roll +3 and take the difference in stress +1 if you tie or worse until you concede, are taken out, or get medical attention).
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@ThomasMarkov it's not really an optimisation question though
@BESW I'm wondering if there's a way with the metagamey part. Will need to ready all your messages when my phone is not at 4% battery...
BESW
BESW
I also really liked that as an enemy concept because they were threatening without being immediately lethal. You got the "Aaaah I've been ambushed!" but also the "okay we have time to deal with this."
Or sometimes you just do the Fate equivalent of using a massively high Dexterity to make all other stats unnecessary.
> AERIAL ACROBATICS You get +2 to create advantages with Vehicles while airborne.
LIKE A LEAF ON THE WIND You can use Vehicles instead of Athletics to defend while airborne and you get +1 to do so.
PRACTICAL ROCKET SCIENCE You can use Vehicles in place of any applicable Science skill when working with vehicles that have an engine of some sort.
GEARHEAD Once per scene when using Vehicles to overcome a mechanical problem, you can create a boost representing an unrelated feature you added to the device--whether you succeed on the overcome action or not.
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
13:45
@BESW they're all cool synergies
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
14:34
Hey, @BESW check out Jadasc's answer it's pretty neat
I guess the follow up question is, how can I make use of : Surprise by Complexity, which says "when you create the adversity, you should not be sure you can solve it". — AncientSwordRage 36 secs ago
 
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Hot RPG Questions
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18:01
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Q: How can I practice making Fate stunts that replicate combining abilities like in other roleplaying systems?

AncientSwordRageOne thing I notice about games like D&D 5e (and to a much greater extent 4e) is that because it works in a sort of building block system of adding feats and class abilities together you can build some unique and fun situations by just combining ideas. As an example, multiclassing a paladin and wa...

fate stunts
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18:26
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Q: What are all of the abilities like 'Reliable Talent'?

AncientSwordRageIn D&D 5E, the Rogue has the eponymous Reliable Talent (any roll of 9 or lower counts as 10 for skill checks you're proficient in), the Eloquence Bard has 'Silver Tongue' (similar but only for Persuasion and Deception checks using charisma). I don't think at feats grant this. Glibness, the 8th le...

dnd-5e feats class-feature
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19:18
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Q: How to balance spellbooks looted from enemy wizards?

JornI'm running a campaign in Faerun, with Red Wizards as one of the main antagonists. My party includes a wizard. Every time the party kills one of said Red Wizards, they expect to find a spellbook, and rightly so. This will lead to my Wizard having a lot of spells to choose from. So, Is this a bal...

dnd-5e wizard treasure
Thomas Markov
Thomas Markov
20:09
I’ve a feeling this answer is going to be one of those “downvote because you don’t like that it is correct” answers.
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@ThomasMarkov could be
Someone_Evil
Someone_Evil
The whole limits around what you can and can't do with fabricate is gonna be a "work it out with your table" for me. (not voted on any of the answers yet)
Pretty sure you're always gonna find rabbit holes to go down if you're looking for consistency
My first association to coins being raw materials was plastic pellets (very similar shape, but much more obviously a raw material)
The second was that there was for a time an industry around melting down US pennies (because the value of the metal is higher than the coin) though doing so was very much outlawed
Mostly just musing, but what would you consider raw materials for metals, that are the same material (as required by the spell)?
 
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Groody the Hobgoblin
Groody the Hobgoblin
21:38
I agree, this seems like a GM call. Also, less about the definition of the word, but Fabricate seems pretty Niche. Its already a rather fringe spell to pick up. Being super strict about only allowing unprocessed materials, further cuts its use down.
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@GroodytheHobgoblin it's a weird spell
Thomas Markov
Thomas Markov
@Someone_Evil Id allow ingots to be the source for fabricate.
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@ThomasMarkov would it matter how processed the coins were?
The impression I get is they want to distinguish between materials a single crafts person would utilize, and a whole team of artisans
Also gold coins probably hardly any processing. Aluminium coins lots to get them to the purified material... But not much past that?
Someone_Evil
Someone_Evil
21:54
@ThomasMarkov I'd be happier with that than iron ore, but I'm not really sure if follows from the reasoning/definitions in your answer
Unless there's an iron ingot tree somewhere I haven't heard about
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@Someone_Evil if you brought a blacksmith a bag of iron coins they have to smelt them down or spark wield them together before starting to make an iron bar
It's not well defined
Someone_Evil
Someone_Evil
Having to fuse something to make a bigger thing doesn't really contribute to something being a raw material or not
Thomas Markov
Thomas Markov
@Someone_Evil For me, coins are unambiguously a final product. Ingots, lumber, are not.
Someone_Evil
Someone_Evil
Now the question "Can fabricate upcycle?" rings in my mind
FWIW I'd be happy with that reasoning from a DM, but I'm not sure it really holds as absolution (as that answer might be taken)
Thomas Markov
Thomas Markov
And the examples given in the spell description are all clearly the natural form of the material.
Someone_Evil
Someone_Evil
22:04
I kinda think the examples are fairly limited to compared to what the spell is capable of
I also feel like the line "high degree of craftsmanship" comes with a lot of room for arguments
Akixkisu
Akixkisu
22:41
My maintenance link broke, and I don't know how long it will persist.
BESW
BESW
23:12
invent a divination system jam hosted by silverygrey. this is a just-for-fun jam about coming up with new ways to make decisions and/or magically discover hidden knowledge.
"Systems of Relation" by Jay Dragon on Medium.
Nick Bate asks on twitter "send me your favourite #ZiMo2022 projects! What things are you excited about?"
HEIST!- ZIMO 2022 by lostwaysclub. You have pulled off a heist and are getting away
Pidj Sorensen wrote on twitter about "what gameplay is like in The Station."
Make Our Own Heaven by Reizor. A Biopunk Angel RPG of Community, Found Family, and Resistance.
takuma_okada_ asks on twitter "what TTRPGs have rules that you find really easy to understand and play?"

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