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@Gurth Our game meetings typically span several days of in-game time so to us it makes sense to use cold or other similar diseases as a convenient excuse when a player is away. Monster lairs aren't a quick stroll away, it tends to take a few days to reach them. :P
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@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
@Vixen said in D&D thread:
@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
Amazon Instant Video
Then I'd Amazon on me. Eww!
high seas then?
High C's?
Corelli? I assume that's just the thumbnail, and the rest of the video is about Pavarotti. He was, and still is (despite being dead over 12 years), known as the "King of the High C's". His big break came in a performance of La Fille du Régiment, in which he sang the 9 high C's in the aria "Ah! mes amis" with an apparently effortless power that amazed the audience.
And now that I'm not at work and able to watch it, meh. A bunch of short clips of a lot of tenors, some modern, some from long ago; some famous, some not so much; some recorded in the studio, some in recital, some excerpts from full operas. Not really a fair comparison of their voices, recorded under such a variety of conditions with widely differing quality. Although I must say, given the age of the recording (remastered, I'm sure) and the primitive recording equipment, the beauty of Caruso's voice was at least a match for any of the other clips.
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I finally got my Christmas present from my daughter (not her fault; apparently the seller had a big backlog):
One is labradorite, which is a feldspar (?
to look it up) which is green-gray and, at the right angle, has interesting optical effects from layers in the stone. It's not a great specimen, and the effect is only really visible on one face (16), but it's still nice, and I like it; I'm not complaining.The other is unakite. I have no idea what that is, but it's green with light brown patches.
Both have numbers engraved or etched into the faces and filled with gold ink or paint.
In limited testing so far, the unakite die seems to favor 4 and 12, but it's rolled a few 20s and no 1s. The labradorite die seems to roll a mix of single-digit numbers and high teens. It has crit failed twice, but no 20s. I'm hoping it's saving up all its 20s for our next session, when it will make up for its previous lack by rolling nothing but.
Both seem to have a tendency to hit the edge of the tray and stop, leaning ambiguously on an edge.
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@Vixen said in D&D thread:
there's a scene in the movie where they need to get into Yzma's secret lair that she commands "KRONK! PULL THE LEVER!" kronk does and drops Yzma into a pit of aligators as she screams "WRONG LEVER!" a second or so later she's back in the room punting a aligator off screen and asking "Why do we even have that lever?!"
Doing the needful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfIxMNm7roU
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@Vixen said in D&D thread:
@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
Amazon Instant Video
Then I'd Amazon on me. Eww!
high seas then?
Nah, I own it. It's just a question of where the copy I own is (and maybe whether the physical medium is something I still have a player for).
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
In limited testing so far,
Didn't know whether to post on Internet of shit thread...
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I got to tell a kid today (she was saying how much she didn't like an upcoming memorized presentation piece):
Remember, on the inside you are a 7-foot tall, dragonborn barbarian. And she can do anything. Call on the rage within you and you'll be fine. All else fails, just breath acid on them and run away.
D&D is wonderful
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Today one of our party members was killed in a battle with a giant. Critical strike in the head led to taking so much damage from a single blow that it ended up instant death. RIP halfling assassin. We did find the second part of the ring, however. And my character found a lead for the third and final part. And sadly learnt that too use the ring you would have to be a human born in the land we're in, even though I managed to bend the accompanying magical sword that the ring was made from to my will for now, even though it called me "unworthy". Can try at least, if we manage to restore it!
Also have been studying the "god maker ritual" book we liberated from getting into the hands of the supreme bitch of the lands, so if we happen to encounter one of the angelic beings mentioned in the book we have the potential to give someone godlike powers too, just for fun.
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
we have the potential to give someone godlike powers too, just for fun.
What could possibly go wrong?
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@Mason_Wheeler In an other campaign we found instructions for a ritual to make someone into a lich, so of course we did so! We gathered the ingredients from random encounters, then when we had it all our warrior underwent the ritual and became overpowered to hell.
The DM did mention it a couple meetings ago too, that the honourable order that party was employed by had come under suspicion after rumours of cooperation with liches...
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@Atazhaia Heh. It's always good to see the party's stupid acts come back to bite them eventually.
Meanwhile, that lich ought to be drawing hostile clerics and paladins (and ordinary adventurers out to make a buck) like flies to honey...
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
make someone into a lich, so of course we did so!
I hope their constitution (or whatever) is strong enough to forever hold back the h̴̛͓̿̑̄̽͘͝u̵̗͔̹̹͔̞̬̼̪̙͉͋͂́̒ņ̶͙̞̗͚̬͇͇͕̭̭̼͕̣̿̓͗͜ğ̵̘̰͛̇́̃̃̆̐̓̊̕ḝ̴̙̼̬̑̅͆̀̃͒̋̆͗́͛͒̕r̷̤̤̳̼͇͔̜̼͚̈́̂́̅͛͜͜͠...
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@Mason_Wheeler We had a cleric in the party. Through the campaign, the entire party went from full lawful to full chaotic. I would assume my mage ended up going insane after the adventure, due to dying and being resurrected a few too many times when his cursed artifact would backfire on him, or just being sneezed on thanks to having fuck all in HP.
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We once played a D&D campaign in which we turned the normal rule (at the time?) of “no evil alignments” upside down: no good alignments were allowed; Chaotic Evil wasn’t either, because we didn’t want a “party” of egotistical backstabbers — Paranoia is much more fun if you want to play that kind of game.
Somewhere early in this campaign, the DM™ says we’re in a certain part of the world (I think it was Forgotten Realms, but I’ve kind of forgotten …) and almost immediately, one of the players asks to talk to him in private. So they go into the hallway and close the door behind them, leaving the rest of us sitting round the kitchen table to listen to the player talk loudly enough that we could hear him remind the DM™ about there being nomads in this area. No idea why he felt this was important enough to remind the DM™, though, let alone why he chose to do so as if this was a big secret.
When they return to the table, the rest of us begin chanting “Nomads, nomads!” For the next several years, any time someone talked with the GM in private, they were usually greeted to a “Nomads!” chant when they returned.
Later during this campaign, we come across a hidden, mostly underground dwarf stronghold that we manage to overcome by the simple expedient of killing all its inhabitants. Rather than just loot and pillage the place for fun and profit, we then decide that this will do nicely as a base of operations for us to terrorise the surrounding countryside from.
The next session, about half the group can’t make it. Those of us who do, have a change of ideas and decide to go seek out the local human baron or count or whatever they have, find out if he knows about the stronghold, and sell it to him. No sooner said than done, and we split the money only between those of us who were actually there. Every one of us then, of course, spent it on high-end gear, magical items and more, and then we concocted a plausible explanation that we would give the other players (not just their characters) for why we had this stuff and why we were still trekking around the area instead of using the stronghold as a base. I don’t think any of them caught on that we’d cheated them out of, as I recall, several tens of thousands of gold pieces each.
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I was reading one of the inane, long-winded arguments in the Garage while taking a dump today, and my mind wandered a bit. I thought about some of the more technical, rules-lawyery arguments we have around here, and the most arcane rules to argue about, and finally I thought of this amusing, hypothetical exchange between a GM and a high-level (perhaps lawful evil) wizard:
As you approach the table, on it you see a large, dusty book. On the cover, you see some strange writing, and you sense a vague aura of evil.
(Excited at the likelihood of it being a spellbook of evil magic) I pick it up and open it.
The feeling of evil is much stronger. Roll an arcana check, please.
Natural 20!
You are able to discern from the title page that this book is a part of the ISO spec governing C++ templates. However, the text of the book remains utterly incomprehensible.
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
I was reading one of the inane, long-winded arguments in the Garage while taking a dump today, and my mind wandered a bit. I thought about some of the more technical, rules-lawyery arguments we have around here, and the most arcane rules to argue about, and finally I thought of this amusing, hypothetical exchange between a GM and a high-level (perhaps lawful evil) wizard:
As you approach the table, on it you see a large, dusty book. On the cover, you see some strange writing, and you sense a vague aura of evil.
(Excited at the likelihood of it being a spellbook of evil magic) I pick it up and open it.
The feeling of evil is much stronger. Roll an arcana check, please.
Natural 20!
You are able to discern from the title page that this book is a part of the ISO spec governing C++ templates. However, the text of the book remains utterly incomprehensible.Did
escape with his soul intact?
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Last night was my first chance to use my fire blasting genital whistle. I rolled a nat 1, which prompted a D100 roll on the critical fail chart we use. I got frightened for the rest of the encounter, so it appears what happened was that I wasn't expecting quite so much flame to come from there and got a bit panicked...
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@PleegWat said in D&D thread:
@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
I was reading one of the inane, long-winded arguments in the Garage while taking a dump today, and my mind wandered a bit. I thought about some of the more technical, rules-lawyery arguments we have around here, and the most arcane rules to argue about, and finally I thought of this amusing, hypothetical exchange between a GM and a high-level (perhaps lawful evil) wizard:
As you approach the table, on it you see a large, dusty book. On the cover, you see some strange writing, and you sense a vague aura of evil.
(Excited at the likelihood of it being a spellbook of evil magic) I pick it up and open it.
The feeling of evil is much stronger. Roll an arcana check, please.
Natural 20!
You are able to discern from the title page that this book is a part of the ISO spec governing C++ templates. However, the text of the book remains utterly incomprehensible.Did
escape with his soul intact?I hadn't thought about that. I'll say yes, but only because he wasn't able to read it.
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@PleegWat said in D&D thread:
@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
I was reading one of the inane, long-winded arguments in the Garage while taking a dump today, and my mind wandered a bit. I thought about some of the more technical, rules-lawyery arguments we have around here, and the most arcane rules to argue about, and finally I thought of this amusing, hypothetical exchange between a GM and a high-level (perhaps lawful evil) wizard:
As you approach the table, on it you see a large, dusty book. On the cover, you see some strange writing, and you sense a vague aura of evil.
(Excited at the likelihood of it being a spellbook of evil magic) I pick it up and open it.
The feeling of evil is much stronger. Roll an arcana check, please.
Natural 20!
You are able to discern from the title page that this book is a part of the ISO spec governing C++ templates. However, the text of the book remains utterly incomprehensible.Did
escape with his soul intact?I hadn't thought about that. I'll say yes, but only because he wasn't able to read it.
What, no read magic spell handy?
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@Gurth The point was that it would remain unintelligible (it's an ISO spec, after all) no matter how strong your ability to read arcane inscriptions might be, but I suppose if you overcame that through some magical means that can't fail, you'd be able to read it, but doing so would have some serious side-effect, like an Int debuff, insanity, or losing your soul. Maybe you become mired in the plane of UB, and every spell you cast causes flaming nasal demons.
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@Gurth The point was that it would remain unintelligible (it's an ISO spec, after all) no matter how strong your ability to read arcane inscriptions might be, but I suppose if you overcame that through some magical means that can't fail, you'd be able to read it, but doing so would have some serious side-effect, like an Int debuff, insanity, or losing your soul. Maybe you become mired in the plane of UB, and every spell you cast causes flaming nasal demons.
The spell has you covered for that:
This deciphering does not normally invoke the magic contained in the writing, although it may do so in the case of a cursed scroll.
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
Back to the subject of D&D, today the DM told us there's a surprise waiting for us in the room we started (this particular stage of the campaign) in. Later,
(DM) You should go back to the room where you started.
Yeah, where there's a "surprise" waiting for us. How about no.
No, there isn't really a surprise there.
We don't believe you.
You're the DM. DMs always lie.
I'm not lying.
I don't believe you. I want to roll an insight check against you, the DM, to see if you're telling the truth.
Um, ok.
Rolls 
I just crit failed my IRL insight check.
I appear to be telling the truth.So now we, or at least
, believe there's no surprise waiting for us.Some of the humor probably got lost in the retelling, but I'm pretty sure that's the hardest we've all laughed in the whole campaign.
I should follow up on this.
It turns out that there was indeed a surprise waiting for us. The big boss of the campaign. So, yeah, DM lied.
We snuck away (we thought), but it turned out that he had known our every move from the moment we picked up the MacGuffin, or at least knew we had it and were almost certainly heading for the exit. (Plot twist: It turned out he had already found it. For some reason, he hadn't taken and used it immediately, but had set an alarm spell on it, and the beholder we thought had been guarding it for centuries had, in fact, been summoned by the boss.) He caught up with us quickly, and we had the final (?¹) battle just outside the room where we found the MacGuffin.
He went down easier than I expected — not that it was actually easy, but none of us died, at least not permanently. It also helped, a lot, that he crit failed one of his rolls and disabled one of his own minions for most of the fight. IIRC, 3 of us focused on the boss while one kept his minions occupied. I think he may have dropped to 0 HP, but a healing potion brought him back to functional status. It's been a couple of weeks, so details are a bit fuzzy, but I remember hitting him with a spell that he resisted for half damage, but it was a spell with enough damage — I want to say 4d6, and I rolled 3 sixes and a five, or something like that — that even half damage hurt him pretty significantly, and another party member finished him off with her +1 sword.
¹ It should be the final battle, but in the epilogue we're trying to destroy the MacGuffin, but it really doesn't want to be destroyed. The MacGuffin itself was destroyed easily enough, but the evil enchantment on it is quite resistant. Just when we thought we'd destroyed it, it appears to have transferred itself to another object, so I don't know what might happen before we finally finish up.
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So I have to decide how to mess with my adult players. They heard a rumor of a temple, beelined for it, and acquired an item. A serious, extinction-level artifact. A sentient artifact. I hadn't expected them to do that (my fault, I know)--I placed it there to explain why the area was so weird. Now they're walking around with this primal artifact of the Creator God in their bag of holding. An artifact thought lost/mythical.
My thought is that this will start drawing lots and lots of attention from all sorts of areas. Demons, devils, angels, gods, spirits, the works. They'll be walking around shaking the unseen world like a bowl of jelly in an earthquake.
And the artifact? It mainly wants to be used. To fulfil its purpose, which is to create. Create what? It doesn't really care.
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Well I think I told y'all ages back about my tiefling.
He was a warlock, having been coerced into a bargain with a Great Old One for a price he did not understand at the time, in a situation of extreme mental stress. The upshot being that he sold his soul for freedom and realised the fundamental flaw in that, too late.
Very fun, very edgy, everyone in the group egged me on with the edgelord stuff so I will not be ashamed of it. And then he got access to a wish, and wished, essentially, that he'd never made the pact, changing the past, winning back his soul, outwitting his patron, and wiping the person he had become out of existence.
I rebuilt the character as a bard, and eventually got over the loss of my favourite character ever to play. We wrote a great story and it was a happy ending that I never expected that character to get.
So I thought.
Guys, don't make a character whose background is that he's cursed that anything good he tries to do will turn into destructive chaos, and then try and do something awesome.
I was used to one particular DM, who would have been unlikely to do something quite like this.
So just as I've gotten the hang of playing the bard (if you remember when I last talked about it, you may think it seems like ages... and it has been, but we switch campaigns and DMs regularly so it's not been a huge number of sessions or this campaign) and gotten my emotions about the two of them under control, we start getting attacked by emissaries of the patron, which wants me back, and is prepared to be quite direct about it.
We've also been told, though as yet it's not from the most reliable source, than in addition to our party's other (in)actions that weren't my fault having ruptured the fabric of the multiverse (which we already knew about) time has also been broken. So... best case scenario is I spent the rest of the campaign running from my erstwhile patron and, unless I die, end it knowing that he's probably going to get caught sooner or later.
But currently it seems likely that I'm going to have to choose between my soul and the integrity of reality. The warlock would probably tell reality to get fscked, but the bard will probably sacrifice himself. Out of character, I'm just hoping that if that happens, the DM will put us back in the original timeline and I'll get my warlock back, rather than forcing the bard to multiclass - I know how Kamaris would deal with being sold out by the same little bastard who sold his soul the first time, after he gave up his entire existence to give the arsehole a second chance. But I don't know how Hope would deal with being forced to serve this eldritch horror.
Oh and did I mention that one of our major current quests will involve going to the Far Realms to retrieve an artefact?
Out of character, I'm hugely conflicted about it. Having been presented with the potential option of having him back, I'm now missing playing the warlock again. It would be devastating for his happy ending to be taken apart like that, but I'm a sucker for tragedy, and it would certainly be narratively interesting.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
Create what? It doesn't really care.
A massive penis, so massive you'd have to be rather far away to fully appreciate it...
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@CarrieVS said in D&D thread:
forcing the bard to multiclass
Can you Jekyll-Hyde characters in that system? For comedic effect you'd switch into the least-optimal character...
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@Tsaukpaetra Please don't give my DM ideas.
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@CarrieVS Plot twist: @Tsaukpaetra is your DM!
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@CarrieVS said in D&D thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Please don't give
myany DM ideas.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in D&D thread:
@CarrieVS said in D&D thread:
forcing the bard to multiclass
Can you Jekyll-Hyde characters in that system? For comedic effect you'd switch into the least-optimal character...It could be really fun having a mechanic like Forging in the Cosmere. Certain triggers (possibly intentional from the player) temporarily changing a character's entire history
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@CarrieVS said in D&D thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Please don't give
myany DM ideas.Don't worry. Us DMs actually skips most of our ideas because they are a bit too over the top sadistic.
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@Jaloopa said in D&D thread:
It could be really fun having a mechanic like Forging in the Cosmere. Certain triggers (possibly intentional from the player) temporarily changing a character's entire history
That almost sounds like a PC version of C.A. Radford.
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@Gąska said in D&D thread:
Oh, they mean cheques … I understood “check" as in “roll a d20 against a difficulty” until I got to the word “payment”. But yeah, then the joke in the second picture wouldn’t work as well. That is, even less well, really.
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@Gurth said in D&D thread:
Oh, they mean cheques … I understood “check" as in “roll a d20 against a difficulty” until I got to the word “payment”.
On the left panel they're discussing payment options. On the right they're discussing Equifax.
Damn, I haven't thought of it when cropping this like that.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@Gurth said in D&D thread:
Oh, they mean cheques
Made up words thread is
You mean like a puma?
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Our party continues to piss off the people in the world. Now we've made ourselves enemies with the mage city-state after refusing to return a forbidden book we've got our hands on. I blame the mage they sent to us being overly creepy with his attempts at getting us to hand over the book, by trying to appeal to greed and offering 100k silver for its return. That made my character (who is taking care of the magical artifacts) get very suspicious and flat out refuse. He went all "the council will hear of this" and our human-hating (especially mages) party member suggested that maybe we should kill him. But we let him go.
But then again, those mages are a bunch of cunts anyway. Who want to be the authority of mages everywhere and require licenses for the use of magic. So pissing them off is more of a "whatever" than anything else. We'll just deal with them the way we deal with everything else, by setting it on fire.
Oh, well. We found the final part of the ring after killing a tentacled beast and my character took a swim through the water-filled room it inhabited. Now we handed it over to a dwarven master smith for fixing, and then we will have the restored magical regalia of the kingdom. Unfortunately my character is not allowed to use them for claiming the throne, as they "require a human of the country" and not some short fluff-ball who travelled from afar, even though he is allowed to wield them.
Oh, well. I got the forbidden magical book and can make him into a demi-god if the opportunity arises.
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
We'll just deal with them the way we deal with everything else, by setting it on fire.
TIL @Atazhaia is @Polygeekery.
Hmm, I might be, too. Most of my wizard's spells, at least the attack spells, are fire spells, and fireball is definitely my Skyrim battlemage's spell of first resort.
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
We'll just deal with them the way we deal with everything else, by setting it on fire.
TIL @Atazhaia is @Polygeekery.
Hmm, I might be, too. Most of my wizard's spells, at least the attack spells, are fire spells, and fireball is definitely my Skyrim battlemage's spell of first resort.
I have a player in one game who has used
- fireball (this makes up about 90% of his contributions, even against single targets)
- Agganazar's Scorcher (line-shaped fire spell)
- wall of fire (a couple times)
- firebolt (a cantrip)
Notice the theme? He even built his character around a wand of fireballs--he's a sorcerer (who can quicken spells) so he can fireball as a bonus action and then use the wand for another fireball. Oh, and he's a tiefling red-dragon-ancestry sorcerer. ALL THINGS MUST BURN!
He's also a total coward who really really really hates to take damage. So I target him mercilessly whenever I can.
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@HardwareGeek The @Polygeekery count of the campaign is now two characters after we got a fire-using mage to replace our useless mage. She is very much for setting stuff on fire, so imagine a tall female
who suggests fire to solve all problems. At least my furry little "ewok" is restrained to just setting anything that attacks the party (and the party healer) on fire.Because yesterday marked the second time I did a critical fail and hit the healer instead of the wolf attacking the healer. And my magical arrows sets any flammable target on fire. At least she doesn't appear to be holding a grudge... And I did at least roll on the lower end of the damage roll.
In good news for my damage, next week I should be able to upgrade my woodworking skills to the highest level and make myself bows and arrows with +1 damage! Pewpew!
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@Tsaukpaetra On that note:
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Last week: The higher class of the party stays at an inn. The lower class of the party sleeps in tents. Inn gets attacked and set on fire. Almost has a full party wipe from the attacking band of cultist ninjas. My ranger gets a hammer to the back of the head and faints. The mage takes a crossbow bolt to the chest and faints. The warrior gets punched a bit too much and faints. The healer is down to 3 HP. Somehow manages to resuscitate the warrior and are able to kill the remaining ninjas and save the entire party. We find out the town guard had all been put to sleep by the cultists, which is why they didn't come to help.
We hand over the repared ring and sword to the count we think is most fit to rule the land. Well, his daughter and soon-to-be husband. We figure the cultists were after our magical book, and not the relics of power. Then has a few days of rest before the wedding.
This week: We are to guard the bride and groom on their journey to the capital where the marriage is to be held. The procession is: Our party (4), the couple (2), some guards (6), bridesmaids (4), father of the bride (1), carriage driver (1), random pets (3). So all in all 21 people and pets.
Journey starts out well, even if rainy. Although the animals are spooked by something. And on the third night we find out why: 3 members of the procession were evildoers who tried a nightly assassination! My ranger set one of them on fire, then took a poisoned sword to the head and fainted (but resisted the poison). The rest of the party killed them.
Next day my ranger discovers that we are being followed by more evildoers. This time 12 of them attacks the procession during the day! A big battle ensues and we manage to kill them all, but we lose 3 guards to the attacking band. Also, the mage did an oops and got herself paralyzed for 2 days when her spell critically failed.
And finally on the last night of the journey we are attacked by two giant apes. They start by smashing the warrior's pet monkey into a bloody pulp. My ranger gets knocked out by one ape by taking two punches to the left leg, cue an angry comment from the DM about "Why do I roll critical successes on the where I hit roll, and not the attack roll?" (1 being critical success when rolling for success, but also being hitting the left leg when rolling for where hitting.) Then the DM finally gets his critical hit when attacking the healer and proceeds to roll two more 1s on the damage roll for a total of 2 damage from the critical hit (out of a possible 20).
And then finally we reach the capital with a procession consisting of 14 people and pets. So we only lost a third on the way! Yay!
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
"Why do I roll critical successes on the where I hit roll, and not the attack roll?"
Because that’s just how these games work, of course ;) A similar thing I often observe in Shadowrun is that a roll to cast a spell works, but not overly well. Then the character gets to resist the spell’s drain (fatigue from casting), and makes a roll that is far better than necessary — in fact, would have been far more welcome when casting the spell than when resisting its drain.
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Status: was entertaining some shower thoughts this morning.
Can a mainframe AI be considered a lich?
- it's "trapped" in the hosting system
- bodies are disposable and wouldn't contain the core AI
- can only really be destroyed from the mainframe itself
But...
- it wasn't alive, probably, so there was no "soul" to bind?
- since the soul isn't bound, it can technically transfer to alternate equivalent host environments
- I'm under the impression Silver wouldn't likely be the primary sigil component for the binding components
Thoughts?
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@Tsaukpaetra Have you ever read these books?
Source:Renraku Arcology: Shutdown | Shadowrun Wiki | Fandom
Renraku Arcology: Shutdown is a sourcebook for Shadowrun. Credits Summary Table of Contents German: Renraku Arkologie: Shutdown Shadowiki (German Wiki) : Renraku Arcology Shutdown
Brainscan is a 3rd edition Shadowrun Adventure that takes place in 2061 and details the events that resolve the Renraku Arcology shutdown. Credits Table of Contents In page order of Brainscan pp...
The first is the beginning of pretty much the scenario you describe (again, in Shadowrun), the second is its resolution as a campaign set of linked adventures.
Just in case someone here doesn’t want spoilers for a twenty-year-old storyline
In brief, a megacorp develops an AI inside the computer system of a self-contained living environment. The AI ends up feeling it’s being kept prisoner there and takes over the place, sealing about a hundred thousand people inside. It then begins wide-ranging psychological and medical experiments on these people to find ones suitable as hosts for a distributed computing network that runs on implanted hardware, before orchestrating its own escape by making its opponents think they’ve shut it down — when in fact it transfers itself to the network and those people are eventually “rescued” by the outside forces that have been trying to retake the place.
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
My ranger gets a hammer to the back of the head and faints.
My ranger [...] took a poisoned sword to the head and fainted
My ranger gets knocked outI sense a pattern there...
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@remi The pattern has been ongoing since meeting 1 (hammer to the leg leaving permanent limp). My ranger ends up in melee all the time for some reason, and has to punch his opponents rather than shooting them.
Edit: For my next campaign I should probably just go for a heavily armored warrior or something...
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