TRPG General Chat

12:05 AM

@BESW The destination can be 0-10 moves away, average 5. After 3 rolls you would expect to win, on average, slightly less than 1 extra food. So the majority of games will be hopeless from the start.

To channel another game, "It's not a very good game, is it?"

BESW

[shrug] I may be misreading a mechanic, or maybe it's just a concept in a tweet.

BESW

12:42 AM

(Though, based on conversations I've had with the designer about other games, they aren't married to the idea that "good" has 100% overlap with "frequent wins." "Playable" isn't even a necessity.)

BESW

12:54 AM

makapatag wrote a twitter thread listing "a few reasons why, if you'd allow a moment of kahilas, you'd want to play GUBAT BANWA (Martial Arts Fantasy and War Drama in the islands of revel and beauty) for your next fantasy #TTRPG campaign (or as we like to call it, kandu!)"

DavidW

2:40 AM

@BESW Murderbot was so good I was willing to pick up and read a fantasy novel after: Wheel of the Infinite which I enjoyed enough to start a fantasy series.

KorvinStarmast

5:24 AM

I can thank RPGSE for Dresden Files game QA which led me to Dresden Files pulp fiction books. Very much pulps/hard boiled detective genre that is an American standard. Is it great literature? Hardly. But it's a form I've been reading since my teens, and it's easy to digest. Great for quality time reading when I don't want the brain to work too hard.

Hot RPG Questions

6:29 AM

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Q: How can I get reach for touch spells without spending an action per spell?

Snaptongue Gripplis with the Long Tongue feat can deliver touch spells from 10 feet. Aberrant Sorcerers can use the Tentacular Limbs focus spell1 to get a similar effect. Is there any other way? The goal is to stay a bit further away with a caster, and to improve action efficiency (no need to Ste...

AncientSwordRage

8:56 AM

@DavidW sometimes games aren't about winning but the experience getting to the end

Hot RPG Questions

9:26 AM

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Q: Do magic users always have lower attack bonuses than martial charcters?

I'm new to DnD 4e, and my party is creating characters right now. We've noticed that weapon users seem to have attack bonuses in the range of 5-7 (3-4 from ability, and 2-3 from weapon proficiency). Spellcasters, however, seem to have attack bonuses in the range of 3-4, because it doesn't look li...

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Groody the Hobgoblin

10:20 AM

@ThomasMarkov I think it is a pretty solid duplicate, with the slight difference that this one is asking if you can force someone to teleport away. The other is just asking if you can force someone to teleport. As discussed in the comments of the dupe target, the answers to these two questions would differ: you can force someone to teleport, but not to teleport away. (They can select to teleport to the same spot)

Someone_Evil

@GroodytheHobgoblin Is that what the question is interested in though? Focusing on the Flee option pushes rather heavily towards one over the other

Groody the Hobgoblin

@Someone_Evil, If you are about the dupe target, yes, its one of these questions that ask slightly different things in title and body. I tried to answer both -- I think "Flee" as a command is unlikely to force them to teleport, but for this spell in particular, they should level set what works with the DM. But answering the title, you can force someone to teleport if they can, which may not make them flee but still will waste their round and potentially spell slot.

Groody the Hobgoblin

10:38 AM

But I think, as both are concerned about teleporting away really (even if the dupe target's title does not ask that), it is a fine duplicate target. I was not the one who voted to reopen -- I just was responding to Thomas' question about what could be possible reasons to do so.

Someone_Evil

Right, fair enough

DavidW

11:44 AM

@AncientSwordRage Perhaps I didn't articulate that well. My issue is not the 66% loss rate, it's that the outcome is clear before that start of play. It's one thing to play a game with low odds of success, it's different to play a game with no chance of success.