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Glazius

12:26 AM

@AncientSwordRage Cool! Good luck with it, I got nothin'.

AncientSwordRage

@Glazius yikes! It's sort of why I tagged it with burning-wheel

Glazius

I mean, aside from "let me summarize the Burning Wheel magic system for you but keep in mind the entire thing is based on stories where there are The Outcast, The Mistake, The Forsaken Place which maybe are not things that show up in mouse stories so you'll be taking notes only so you can rotate them 90 degrees yourself later".

So, you know, "people with magic are set apart from society because magic has created some of the greatest threats we face and poisoned parts of the world".

AncientSwordRage

@Glazius oooh I didn't know that about the burning wheel setting

Glazius

It's low fantasy. That's generally the deal with magic in low fantasy, isn't it?

wizard magic, at least

Torchbearer's the same way though it's less pull-back-the-curtain explicit about it.

BESW

@Glazius ...huh. That makes The Broken Earth even more subversive in a way I hadn't thought about before.

Glazius

12:45 AM

The opposite number "people with magic are a welcomed part of society because magic has ended some of the greatest threats we faced and helped heal the world" is p. common in what might be called "romantic fantasy".

BESW

(In the Stillness, people are taught that orogenes are existential threats because they cannot control their powers without extreme childhood intervention that only the government can provide, and that the terrible things in their world are the result of uncontrolled adult orogenes; this is all untrue as orogenes are the reason humanity survived the terrible things, and the government's exclusive control over their training is a way to enslave the orogenes.)

(The government wields the trope as propaganda to support its power and control those it perceives as threats)

AncientSwordRage

@Glazius I didn't even know it was low fantasy to be honest

Glazius

1:01 AM

@AncientSwordRage Well, glad to be of help there.

AncientSwordRage

1:30 AM

@Glazius thanks

Hot RPG Questions

2:36 AM

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Q: Can Mind Blank be detected?

After thinking about uses for Mind Blank and how it interacts with a bunch of spells, I then tried to think of counters and ways someone could get past it with one problem always coming up. How do you know when someone is under its effect? Mind Blank spell description for reference: Until the sp...

AncientSwordRage

3:22 AM

@HotRPGQuestions I need a weaker version called Brain Fart, maybe a cantrip. Target is incapacitated, can't move, and can speak only falteringly. The creature automatically fails intelligence ability checks. This end the next time they take damage or at the beginning of their next turn.

AncientSwordRage

3:35 AM

Probably too much for a cantrip. The most they seem to do is remove reactions or disadvantage on attacks

BESW

3:51 AM

> Doorway effect Once per scene when a character passes through a doorway for a specific purpose, you can have them forget that purpose until their next action resolves. You may then compel them with one of your fate points to forget the purpose for the rest of the scene, which they can buy off as usual.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I thought there'd be a good stunt for that type of thing

Here's an extremely dumb/creative idea. Put a small or larger creatures at one end of a closed corridor at least 100ft long, and cast Force Cage perfectly down the middle, specifying that it's 1ft by 100ft. As there's less than 2½ft either side, the creature can't even squeeze into the 2ft space left and is shot 100ft away so as to not be inside the cage or in the space to either side.

> Creatures only partially within the area, or those too large to fit inside the area, are pushed away from the center of the area until they are completely outside the area.

I initially thought of using it to push creatures off a cliff, but this is funnier. Makes me think if we need a railgun tag /s

Hot RPG Questions

5:32 AM

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Q: Searching for late '80s/early '90s AD&D book of modules with specific encounters

Back in the late 80s or early 90s, I purchased an AD&D book containing a dozen or more goofy/silly one-shot modules. I gave this book away as a birthday present, but I'm trying to remember what that book was called. For instance, one module was crashing some Kobold's party(?) where the Kobold ba...

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Bardic Wizard

6:09 AM

@GcL ravelry is an interesting corner of the internet, in both the usual meaning of the word and the Spock-esque usage

@Catofdoom2 also, I second the learn a craft thing. Yarn rn is the only thing that’s keeping me from dying mentally as I get closer to ap test season

(And if you’re interested, there’s a good ravelry group I’m in called Teens of Ravelry that’s kinda quiet but fun)

BESW

8:03 AM

I wish Eternal Cylinder were on Game UI Database, because I wanna look at its icons without having to trawl through youtube streams.

Hot RPG Questions

8:54 AM

7

Q: What damage type does Disintegrate deal?

The text of Disintegrate reads: Disintegrate: You fire a green ray at your target. Make a spell attack. You deal 12d10 damage, and the target must attempt a basic Fortitude save. What type of damage is this considered? The CRB, as far as I can tell, makes no mention of untyped damage. There are...

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AncientSwordRage

9:10 AM

@HotRPGQuestions vanilla damage

BESW

9:25 AM

I always thought of disintegrate as more of a mint flavor.

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