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12:16 AM

@Ben Putting the fantasy into nerd fantasy/role playing games. (the picture) Personally prefer the "hulk want shotgun" picture. Made me giggle. :)

Shalvenay

hey there @KorvinStarmast

KorvinStarmast

Hi Shal

@BESW I don't think she's ever read the Thieve's World books. That is the vulgar unicorn, and yes he's glad to see her. :)

BESW

Give me a bog unicorn any day.

Shalvenay

how're things going?

Ben

@BESW Aww.. He's a cutie

KorvinStarmast

12:22 AM

Shal, I am apparently toxic to the site so I must minimize my presence. Or so I've been told. So this is a hit and run. In about 20 mins, my brother has me on roll20, so maybe tonight is Game On! Life Cleric, worships the god of beer. :)

jwacalex

have fun!

KorvinStarmast

@Shalvenay Wife is out of town for most of weekend, so I get to maybe get my Roll20 DM stuff set up, and try to fit your unusual scenario into a level 3 type challenge.

I am definitely going with blond hair on the spider legs of the warlock as a "tell" since the three clue rule seems to apply here.

I'll be starting the group in a city called "New Jahz" and their hook is "find out what happened to our tax collector." Sound good?

Ben

@KorvinStarmast Eh??

KorvinStarmast

@Ben Eh? is a response to what, exactly? You're the one posting pictures. ;)

Ben

> I am apparently toxic to the site

What does that mean?

Shalvenay

12:40 AM

@KorvinStarmast sure :D

Clarus_Nox

May I inquire a 5e dnd question?

Ben

@Clarus_Nox I see no reason why not

Clarus_Nox

what are ways a sorcerer can gain a familiar?

Ben

Apparently ther eare many people that have resources primed and ready to respond

Clarus_Nox

been thinking about possibly a non magically bound contract

Ben

12:48 AM

@Clarus_Nox As in RAW/RAI?

Clarus_Nox

mostly yes

but then saw this

Ben

Otherwise I'd say talk to your GM

Clarus_Nox

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Q: How does Find Familiar work with a Ring of Spell Storing?

Say a Wizard casts Find Familiar for himself, and then casts it again into a Ring of Spell Storing. The Ring is then given to another person, let's say a Rogue, who uses the Ring to cast Find Familiar. The description of Find Familiar says If you cast this spell while you already have a fam...

we are currently in a town of 'harpell' descendants so finding a wizard to cast it into it shouldn't be too hard

but before i saw this I was thinking of approaching a creature that caught my interests and trying to enter a verbal contract or something. but id on't think that'd be the same as a familiar and would be an npc under dm control right?

Ben

@Clarus_Nox Well for the most part the response appears to be that any familiar that qualifies for "NPC" would be controlled by the DM.

Just figuring out what that qualification is though is where I'm lacking

KorvinStarmast

@Ben in re What does that mean? Beyond the small point that I intended that for Shal, -- I should have should have specified better -- sometimes folks need to figure things out. This is one such time.

Ben

12:59 AM

@KorvinStarmast Ah I see. Just in a general sense that seemed very heavy

KorvinStarmast

Yeah, heavy is a fair way to put that. +1 for Ben.

@Clarus_Nox That is a DM thing which can lead to the Familiar being a pseudo dragon or an imp, per the monster manual It's a different way to do a familiar.. There are some Q & A on that feature. It's not the same as the spell.

The Oracle

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Q: What do I need to do to not get upvoted, completely inappropriate Fate Core answers on my FATE 2.0 questions?

Whenever I ask a FATE question, with the SOLE exception of the edition differences question, I always get a terrible Fate Core answer that seems to completely fail to understand that I'm not asking about Fate Core. When I point this out, generally people go "Oh, well, it'll probably work anyways...

support questions fate

KorvinStarmast

MM page 254 for pseudo dragon.

Variant IMP is on page 69 MM.

Ben

1:43 AM

Morning @Miniman

Shalvenay

hey there @daze413

daze413

@Shalvenay hey hey hey!

Ben

So, was gonna say hey @Ash, but just as I put my coffee down to do so, it spilled all over me

user15026

@Ben oh no!

daze413

@Shalvenay how's life lately?

BESW

1:55 AM

I'll hazard a guess and say not as damp as Ben's.

daze413

@Ben Casting Purify Food and Drink, here, would clean it off you, right? :) (I'm assuming you're not burning to death because you just typed stuff in)

Shalvenay

@daze413 OK here

Ben

@Ash First time that's ever happened. Thankfully it was both a flat white (so not as hot) and I'm also wearing a loose shirt. So no harm done. Except that I have less coffee now

Shalvenay

hey there btw @Ash

BESW

Less coffee is harm enough.

Ben

1:57 AM

@BESW badum-tss

@BESW This is also true

user15026

@Ben Well that's good at least :)

Ben

@Ash So I haven't seen you around here a lot, you had any games going lately?

user15026

Not really, no - summer has me busy :P

Ben

Aug 24 '15 at 23:26, by Ben

Agh! Life! The bane of fun!

user15026

Indeed :P

Ben

2:00 AM

Thought that sentiment might be relevant haha

But I can say I know that feeling. I went from 4 games a week to one... and even that's on shaky ground atm too :(

But now I've got a game going with @Daze and @miniman, so it's looking up again!

daze413

Excited to have you guys, I have actual maps for next week this time!

when I say maps, I mean... encounter locations, not actual plane map... Though I should do that sometime too, I guess

BESW

Maaaaaaps.

Ben

@daze413 Yeeeeeey!

I believe @BESW had some useful links on how to draw maps haha

BESW

Fantastic Maps has fantastic guides and tutorials for practical techniques.

It's not quite so good at helping you figure out how your map's design should reflect its purpose.

Ben

Also macaroni

daze413

2:06 AM

Ah, no, I use excel.. Though I do draw some maps for my RL games

BESW

Also macaroni.

Jun 1 at 13:45, by BESW

@DrRDizzle Or do what I do, and grab an existing map.

Ben

From creativity to copout

All legitimate strategies

BESW

Jun 1 at 14:18, by BESW

A lot of my recent campaigns have been able to use modified Google Maps.

(Click through to the conversation the above comments are from, to see examples of various kinds of maps I've made.)

Ben

2:21 AM

I'd have to say that if nothing else, Maps are why people play RPGs

Miniman

@Ben That seems pretty easily disproven, given the number of RPGs that don't involve maps in any way.

BESW

Backers of Misspent Youth can get text-complete PDFs of the game now (it's not the final pretty version, but all the words are there).

Ben

@Miniman I should put a ":P" at the end of that then

daze413

I'll have to check it after work, imgur is blocked

Also, yeah, I've done pretty well with just a vague shape of the continents, and coming up with details on the fly, so no maps are really required

Ben

2:46 AM

So, after cleaning the coffee off with a dishcloth, I now smell like old cereal :(

nitsua60

@BanjoFox Anyone else remember the time someone's phone wasn't working and they had to Morse that bit of information into the chat-stream? That was kinds fun. (cc: @BESW @Miniman @Shalvenay @Magician @Adeptus @JoelHarmon)

Ben

I was wondering why there was morse code in the chat...

Joel Harmon

@nitsua60 -. ---

Miniman

@nitsua60 That was pretty hilarious.

nitsua60

@Miniman having a hard time coming up with the right chat-search to find it, though =\

Miniman

2:49 AM

Me too - it was doppel, right?

nitsua60

Wazzit? I'd have guessed Adeptus, but I have no idea why.

@SevenSidedDie I use minis in DW. No grid rules or movement speeds, but I just like the tactile part of the game I wasn't willing to give it up. (cc: @JoshuaAslanSmith)

Joel Harmon

@nitsua60 as much as I like the tactile aspect, I find them most valuable as a communication medium

nitsua60

@JoelHarmon You mean like this?

Spaceballs - playing with your dolls again?

No, sir!

That's right!

2:56 AM

I didn't see you playing with your minis again, sir!

(besides, everyone knows the best minis are legos)

Ben

@JoelHarmon Seconded

nitsua60

@JoelHarmon I've got a paladin-player using a Ninjago minifig--with a ridiculous 4-inch sword in one hand. It's better than anything Ral Partha could come up with.

Joel Harmon

they are reequipable, dismemberable, and come with their own reconfigurable set pieces. What's not to love?

nitsua60

Another uses 80s spaceman for any character they play, no matter the game, edition, setting, or character.

Joel Harmon

that's an entirely reasonable approach

nitsua60

3:00 AM

(complete with broken-chinstrap-helmet)

Ben

@nitsua60 You know, I'm doing this now. This is happening

nitsua60

@godskook Are you asking about the odds of rolling it? It's trivial with point-buy, it's impossible using the standard array.... (Nmv: I see that later others have addressed it.)

@Ben He tried to lay it down and use it to walk across a 10' pit trap. (Arguing from map-scale.) Then failed the DEX check to walk along the flat of his blade.

Ben

@nitsua60 [must... resist... urge... to make... terrible pun]

Joel Harmon

@Ben no cutting remarks today?

@nitsua60 my favorite character had a paper pair of wings taped to his back, to represent the in-game Leonardo DiVinci wings he wore. He insisted they were real dragon wings, and sometimes attempted to fly with them.

Ben

@JoelHarmon Well that... and I can't really form it properly

The old cereal smell is really messing with my thought process

Ben

6:33 AM

So. Home now, and free of the stench

Also, in other news, a friend has approached me about learning the rules for d&d, as they had recently been invited to a game.

I asked if there was room for another, as my housemate had only ever experienced no more than a few sessions of multiple games (and now feels she is somehow cursed), but they did extend the invitation.

So now they might actually be able to join a proper game of D&D! Am happy :)

The only question is the version. Because on a scale of 5e to pathfinder, I do seriously hope it's a little more toward the 5e end, especially for two beginners in a group of 6

Miniman

@Ben That's quite an odd scale you've got there :P What do you see between those two?

Ben

Primarily? Character creation

After that, understanding the rules

Miniman

No, I mean, at one end of the scale you have 5e, at the other end, pathfinder. What's in the middle?

Ben

Not saying that they're difficult to understand, just there's a lot to it

5, 4, 3.5, pathfinder

Miniman

Interesting. I would've thought it was more like 5, pathfinder, 3.5, with 4 sort of off to the side somewhere.

Ben

6:47 AM

Haha. In truth my experience of 4 is non existent, and pathfinder is just of what others have told me, with a little bit of a nosey myself, so yeah

I just did the countdown really haha

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