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V2Blast

00:00

@KorvinStarmast Nice :)

V2Blast

00:20

@Eddymage When I read "precious", I mainly think of Gollum saying it in The Lord of the Rings... :P

@Adeptus Relevant: Discord, or the Death of Lore

...Also, how's everyone been? It's been too long since I've dropped by here.

NautArch

00:35

@V2Blast Pretty quiet 'round these parts.

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Hot RPG Questions

05:15

Q: In D&D 3.5, can you cast with a fractional caster level?

Not that it's likely to come up very often, but I saw this answer suggesting that you can reduce your caster level, and I realized I didn't know: can you reduce that caster level to (say) 2.5? In general, caster level is strongly tied to whole numbers. The round-down rule and the whole-number out...

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AncientSwordRage

08:34

Played the best game of Lady Blackbird last night 🫨

Glazius

08:57

@AncientSwordRage Cool, did she make it?

BESW

I have not yet played a game of Lady Blackbird that wasn't the best.

AncientSwordRage

09:26

@Glazius the goblin I rescued? Yes she did.

Lady Blackbird? Eh, I think Cyrus is sorting that out...

@BESW I was was almost vibrating out if my seat with excitement

BESW

[grin] It's a lot of fun.

You can see, I think, why I like using it to introduce people to TRPGs.

It's got the traditional expectations like rolling dice, having characters, magic, goblins, fights. And that's all in a tight package delivering all of those things very efficiently with good support and guidance--but also a lot of encouragement for the kind of character-driven "it made sense at the time, I swear" collaborative creativity that makes TRPGs so special.

And it's invoking all these super familiar tropes, so there's no friction in learning the lore or setting or going "wait, I don't get the premise."

Glazius

09:49

I forget the precise wording but when I was researching what Harper had to say about it on podcasts and such, he summed it up like "Lady Blackbird is a bunch of cliches about to have an adventure."

BESW

10:30

Hah, not wrong.

A lot of the mastery in Lady Blackbird's use of cliche and trope, is in making a character by mashing together several different tropes in ways that aren't entirely expected, but not explaining anything about it. Instead the players know the tropes well enough that seeing them arranged that way creates questions.

Hot RPG Questions

10:43

Q: If a weapon attack moves the creature within 5ft of a second creature, such as with Crusher, can Horde Breaker be used to attack the second creature?

Horde Breaker states: "Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon." The second portion of Crusher states: "Once per turn, when ...