@Adeptus The Hip-Hop Pharaoh is an as-yet-undefined entity in our Weird campaign. I imagine that he's an undead/resurrected ancient Egyptian monarch who decided to adopt this aesthetic.
Except even more saturated with pop culture. Priestesses of Bast wearing Hello Kitty masks.
Ajani is a PC from an old unrelated twosie campaign I ran for @trogdor.
It was a political thriller in a magical version of Ancient Egypt, wherein a thief (Ajani) accidentally became a werecat. Which was massively confusing for everyone because only the highest ranks of Bast priestess were given that blessing. And Ajani was a very lowly male totally untrained in any religious niceties.
But the Pharaoh was Hatshepsut, the first woman ruler of Egypt to take the title Pharaoh for herself instead of ruling in the name of a male relative, and she thought the whole thing was hilarious. So the Pharaoh ordered the priestesses to take Ajani in and train him--and later, made him an ambassador to the Pharaonic Court on behalf of the Temple of Bast.
The campaign was a combination social comedy/political thriller with Ajani being the fish out of water who even his allies want to see fail.
I'm suddenly imagining an Egypt that is full of radical monsters and badass heroes, and the emperor is the most badass of them all.
(@BESW you've mentioned in our amaterasu story setup early on that you would often just fill in a blank so that it's filled in, expecting us to replace or improve on it if we wanted something in particular. Is this Hello Kitty Bast Pharoah a case of that or something you're genuinely interested in exploring?)
@DavidWilkins I'd agree that breaking your big toe is a worse idea. Just didn't want to leave open the possibility that breaking other toes is a good idea.
Tomorrow I get to learn to use crutches for the first time while needing crutches for the first time. I suppose that is how anyone learns to use them though
@trogdor Doctor Squidlark would call that a minor ego fracture. And then laugh heartily, and activate the fairly painful surgical (laser powered) twenty second treatment.
the doctor I mean was one of our neighbors before we moved, and he used to do things like spray water at people coming to his house during Haloween and fire off a potato cannon (in his yard pointed towards the boonies, he was not shooting it in places where it would hit people) and hunt chickens with a crossbow (only on his own property)
oh, and he constructed his house himself, with his wife, which was partly built from a boat which I believe they also had previously built themselves
according to my father he has also done other crazy things which I cannot quite remember
he was pretty awesome
he did express bewilderment as to how I could have injured my foot in the particular way I had,.. I honestly have no idea myself because all I had done was run the way I always do
so something particular about the terrain must have been a factor
I could have stepped on a rock or something,... but I honestly don't remember it that well anymore
@Adeptus Apocalypses are generally more eventful. If I had to guess, I'd say you missed Chat:Apocalypse and are actually seeing Chat:Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland at the moment.
Yeah, I play and GM, but I'm also developing a proximity chat service, so I go to chat.stackexchange.com sometimes to check how the interface works. = )
@eimyr I think I told him I'm interested before. There's no way I'll do anything in that direction in the next 8 days, but after that I need games again.
…, but after that I need to games going again, because I'll be in a new place with a new schedule and new responsibilities not knowing any local gamers yet.
I won't need games like immediately, I'm not a junkie (or maybe I am, but that's an entirely different problem and I may have already marked game stores, a student game society meetup location and things like that on my map), it's just that I won't have anything in prep then, and a long perspective to look forward to.
@LegendaryDude don't know if you know but you can also write [gaming.se] into a comment and it'll magically auto-convert into a link to that site. :D Even works here in chat.
Chat.SE's transcript seems a bit broken at the moment... if I search for a term such as "lol" and sort by newest, the most recent results are from April last year (2015):
I promise we've had someone say "lol" sometime in 2016, and in fact, in late 2015.
If I search for something someone said ...
Searching any Stack Exchange chatroom doesn't seem to work at the moment.
For example, the word "this" certainly appears in The Nineteenth Byte but
https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=this&room=240
results in 0 messages found for me.
Even with the user specified there are no results:
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I might have the chance to create an interesting interactive setup for roleplaying. A friend of mine got a hold of 20+ touchscreens with a small embedded computer running Windows.
I'm thinking I might see if I can get 6, and then get an old table I can make some holes in.
I think so. I think it's only basic old-school touch though, but still, it could reduce clutter and streamline things a bit.
I have the skills to code up some helper tools as well. I did consider making a sort of digital roleplaying game. Something that is still face-to-face like PnP, but with a fully electronic system to give way for more advanced mechanics.
I'm thinking about, eg, how in Aeon Wave hacking Red Sea Megacorp databanks often yields half-garbled plot dumps.
The module provides diegetic-formatted handouts for those occasions, but it's a lot more effective if you keep them on a digital device and hand that to your players when they trigger a reveal.
Rigging their embedded table interface to display that material would make it even more diegetic.
Definitely. I also think electronically assisted play gives more options for fine-grained control, which you would normally forego. Like carrying capacity. I know my group would love that.
Heck, they'd love a system that kept track of hunger/thirst/sleep.
Whereas I tend to eschew fiddly bits, so I'd be more interested in using it for diegetic elements and coordinating gross features that are difficult to accommodate manually in my circumstances.
Like, playing Mythic.
We just straight up don't have enough dice for it.
A simple physics roller on the embedded tablets would make games like Mythic, Don't Rest Your Head, and Epyllion, a lot simpler without buying more physical tools--not even taking into account that sometimes half my group is Skyping in from thousands of miles away.
@BESW I have a 4k 55" TV. Once I retire it, it will definitely become an asset for roleplaying. A piece of glass on top, and it'll be perfect for a dynamic table.
Chat.SE's transcript seems a bit broken at the moment... if I search for a term such as "lol" and sort by newest, the most recent results are from April last year (2015):
I promise we've had someone say "lol" sometime in 2016, and in fact, in late 2015.
If I search for something someone said ...
Searching any Stack Exchange chatroom doesn't seem to work at the moment.
For example, the word "this" certainly appears in The Nineteenth Byte but
https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=this&room=240
results in 0 messages found for me.
Even with the user specified there are no results:
htt...
