Happy Friday Room!

Also, it's theater poster season again!

@Pie Toes Go In First Thank Gawd It's Friday

@Vin: The Graphics Interchange Format!

@BESW reminds me of the Dr Seuss book covers

@PieBie Totally Gnarly Indeed Friend!

how have your nights been lately? :P

short and frequently interrupted :D

but all in all I'm still enjoying it

@PieBie My mandate was "nostalgic 60s romantic comedy of opposites."

And I had 1/3 the usual time to do it in.

good, keep that up

Next poster is for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the director is going to choose a semi-contemporary musical motif for it; one of her previous Shakespearean productions used Beatles covers.

That reminds me of the A Midsummer Night's Dream I did in college: we had modern music as intermezzos over a few textless scenes. I clearly remember No Doubt's Don't Speak being eerily appropriate for one of those

It's a cool idea.

Unfortunately sometimes in practice it winds up sounding like the Juicy Fruits.

hey, it was college

hello humans

hey there! A wild Ryan appears!

It uses Greeting

Vincent finished his mission on Wednesday and stole the show a bit in the process

Defeated Strahd

wow!

congrats to Vincent and his driver!

and bards are there to steal shows :P

[checks] Wait, this isn't Role-playing Games chat.

hehe, except for when it sometimes is @BESW

it also is Board and Card Games chat once in a while

It never is Politics chat.

@Ryan he looks manageable. I'd estimate your party is 4-5 members, all level 6-8 ish?

My group is in a kind of schedule limbo, but we'll be playing more Golden Sky Stories next month.

we're level 12

in 5E you level pretty quick

And I'm really excited about some of the recent Worlds of Adventure for Fate, like Arecibo, Weird World News, and Way of the Pukona.

He kept mist forming through walls and resetting the fight on us. I had enough and teleported through to keep fighting him

Used Animated Objects which is just a ridiculous spell

@BESW ill have to look those up. i might start GMing in November but dont think itll be 5e

Oh, man, I'd love to talk about possible systems for you to check out.

There's a ton of free, easy-to-learn games with little to no prop management.

@Ryan Ooh apparently. Our GM has been slowing us down to keep things manageable. But then, we play 3.5

There's even a Fate system for tactical combat now.

@BESW I've had one of those slumps. We recently picked up after a year's hiatus

I use mostly systems that are fast and easy to pick up and are tuned for a satisfying single-session adventure. That way I can just say "Hey, you can come over any Saturday you're available."

Because if people feel like they need to commit to regular attendance, they won't come at all. So long-form campaigns and vertical advancement systems just don't work with my situation.

The closest we come to long-form campaigns is more like episodes in an old-fashioned monster-of-the-week TV show.

Oh, and it's important to use systems that scale to varying group size easily and well on the fly.

That's one reason I default to Fate most of the time.

that sounds practical

we are feeling 3.5's rules weight

Oh yeah. I started in 3.5, and it took years to throw that sucker off.

I've been making things easier by making spell and ability cards for everyone to use

The sunk costs alone are kinda nutty.

I still love the system

it has its... flaws

If you want something D&D-like but lighter, there are a number of options depending on what parts of 3.5 make it feel like D&D to you.

Thanks, but we're not just ready to switch systems. This is the only campaign I do, and my DM is deep into 3.5

The newb players are just now getting used to the ruleset, so switching is not an option by a long shot

13th Age is still using the same basic d20 System chassis, but since it's free of the franchise obligations it has room to ditch the unnecessary "because it's traditional, damnit" weight, and bring in some fun newer ideas like replacing skills with backstory RP prompts.

im most likely going to buy Tales From The Loop or Tales From The Flood to run

sounds like the group would prefer Tales From The Flood based on age. And I plan to make custom maps for it to be set in Orlando

I liked the idea of Tales from the Loop, but the mechanics looked pretty generic.

@Ryan Worlds of Adventure for Fate

Made public by request

hey @WELZ

'sup?

nuffin much

hi Welz

hello @Vincent hello @Ryan hello @Room

hello moto

Hurray, vacuum dog is back!

Also, the queues have been cleared!

@PieBie only for you....

yeah I also have close votes... and I kinda dislike those '^_^

@WELZ aw, chucks

well, I did my part!

i.imgur.com/t8EcmuF.gifv

I just noticed the 'edit tags' link for the first time. Is it new?

@Vincent nope thats been there for years

I'm sooooo bliiiiiiind

well maybe, where are you seeing it?

like on a question you can edit tags without having to enter the edit question section. that where you mean?

I just used it to add a few tags

yep thats been there

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@Vincent ever since 10k (scroll to bottom of page)

checks profile

I've been blind since early 2015

sometimes i just want to be like, "Cool story bruh" and hit send and move on from random people on the internet

@Ryan That;s a very healthy disposition

@Vincent Regained his vision September '18

@WELZ There! Are! Four! Lights!

@Vincent Wrong. There's 5

:p