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@Jaloopa That and being awesome, finally feeling like a real FF game again after the last two huge disappointments...
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@Mason_Wheeler I've just completed it on the switch rerelease, after getting to the final boss on PS1 and losing my save. It's probably the single game I've played the most over the various versions I've bought, I could wax lyrical all day about it
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Status: I'm apparently a barbarian warlock fighter cleric paladin druid with bard tendencies.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
Sleep-deprived brony nerd who sings in the shower and can't drive worth shit
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@Applied-Mediocrity ...oh, that thing.
I can see most of those, but what does the changing lanes at a red light thing have to do with being a Barbarian?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
The player?
Just goes to show that inside some tiny, shy, quiet people are demons of rage waiting to be unleashed in the bedroomJust wait a few years...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
I can see most of those, but what does the changing lanes at a red light thing have to do with being a Barbarian?
Barbaric - uncultured, selfish, aggressive - behavior, I s'pose
In retrospect, the joke's not all that funny.
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@Tsaukpaetra dude, the pedobear thread is...I hope nowhere. One of the things about being a high school teacher (at least one who wasn't an ephebophile before hand) is that teenagers are no longer attractive.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in D&D thread:
@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
Sleep-deprived brony nerd who sings in the shower and
can'tdriveworth shitlike terminator
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@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
@Tsaukpaetra dude, the pedobear thread is...I hope nowhere. One of the things about being a high school teacher (at least one who wasn't an ephebophile before hand) is that teenagers are no longer attractive.
Just because I said it doesn't mean I want to do it here and now.
Holy fuck!
Would it have been better if I said "her future husband will surely find out!" ?
Sometimes people...
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@Tsaukpaetra you hit one of my teacher triggers. Same general effect as telling Linus that he really should use Windows.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
you hit one of my
teachertriggers.I do that to people. Can't have people mellowing out and not reacting, after all!
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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.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in D&D thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
@Tsaukpaetra dude, the pedobear thread is...I hope nowhere. One of the things about being a high school teacher (at least one who wasn't an ephebophile before hand) is that teenagers are no longer attractive.
Just because I said it doesn't mean I want to do it here and now.
Holy fuck!
Would it have been better if I said "her future husband will surely find out!" ?
Sometimes people...
He's not the only one who saw it that way. It came across totally pedobear, or "jailbait wait" at the very least...
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
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'm mildly surprised the DM didn't punish the metagaming by engineering a way to force them to return regardless. And then surprise them by proving there was no surprise.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in D&D thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in D&D thread:
you hit one of my
teachertriggers.I do that to people. Can't have people mellowing out and not reacting, after all!
Side-ways topical...
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/438914874219954177/670745530439172096/image0.jpg
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@Tsaukpaetra said in D&D thread:
@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
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'm mildly surprised the DM didn't punish the metagaming by engineering a way to force them to return regardless. And then surprise them by proving there was no surprise.
This group was organized specifically for players with no previous experience, and the DM is pretty laid-back about a lot of things.
Also, it didn't make sense to go back to the start. We were (and still are) in a mine full of branching passages. We explored one passage to the end and found a lot of high-level enemies, including (probably) the big boss, that we don't really want to fight (especially since we were shorthanded; one playing had to work, or something, although nobody has come up with a good in-game explanation for her absence). So we backed up, but not all the way to the entrance, and explored another branch. It turns out to have been exactly the right thing to do, too. We found the MacGuffin that is the central focus of the whole campaign.
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played a pickup game becasue fuck why not. grabed a premade Dwarven Barbarian, and immediately started playing as
KronkDerrik Shieldbreaker...... one of the other players at the table picked a premade Elven Alchemist......... and yeah
YzmaIvy Alariandespite literally never meeting each other before tonight's pickup game and having no preplanning communication whatsoever......we are now Kronk and Yzma, and i'm fairly certain the GM had not picked up on it beforfe we had to end session. we will see Wednesday if he works it out before then.......
if not i fully expect Ivy to instruct me: "KRONK! PULL THE LEVER!" at some point in next session's dungeon crawl. If the DM does not respond to that by making a pitfall trap drop and Ivy and mildly inconvenience her like it does in the movie I will be very disappoint.
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@Vixen said in D&D thread:
hooooooo boy....
So..... Imma be honest?
Y'all try that with me Imma punch you in the head.
Then the dick.
Then the head again.
Then shove your entire dice bag up your ass.
Then quit the table and find myself a better GM.
I would slowly murder the NPC. And all the other PCs for not stopping it.
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
especially since we were shorthanded; one playing had to work, or something, although nobody has come up with a good in-game explanation for her absence
In my group, when a player can’t make it, his or her character is normally still there but stays in the background and goes along with whatever the others decide to do — within reason. They’re definitely not going to be the ones walking point through a minefield, giving all their money or gear to the other PCs, doing the important negotiations just because the character has the highest skill, etc.
However, if something bad happens to all the other PCs, then the absent player’s character will suffer this too, if it’s logical. That PC won’t be the only survivor of a plane crash or a fight with an ancient red dragon if that kills all the others.
Of course, it also depends on where the PCs are and what they’re doing. If it’s a group out in the wilderness somewhere, of course the absent player’s character will stay with the rest of the group. OTOH, if they’re in the city where they all live and have no reason to lay low, then that PC might be away doing something offscreen for as long as the player isn’t there either.
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@Gurth Absent players in our group tend to get some minor disease, like a cold, enough to put them out of the action and just staying at the closest safe location for the duration. The only thing done with absent PCs may be borrowing an item from them while they are away, in case the party needs it. Or ask them to do something within their skillset, like asking the mage to identify a magical item. But they are safe from anything major happening to them.
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@Carnage said in D&D thread:
@Vixen said in D&D thread:
hooooooo boy....
So..... Imma be honest?
Y'all try that with me Imma punch you in the head.
Then the dick.
Then the head again.
Then shove your entire dice bag up your ass.
Then quit the table and find myself a better GM.
I would slowly murder the NPC. And all the other PCs for not stopping it.
I like the way you think.
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@Gurth in my old group, the player that failed to show up had his PC get lost in the woods, caves, city, or whatever else the landscape deemed somewhat believable. If they are confined in such a way that similar tactics wouldn't be possible, the character might follow along like a zombie, but most of the time there would be some slightly humorous reason for their departure instead.
Mind, that group ran with like 10-15 players and most play nights, maybe 5 were present, so it was a very common thing and us DMs didn't want to NPC half an army. The reintroduction of PCs was mostly done with some mild humor, and tailored to the PC.
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
The only thing done with absent PCs may be borrowing an item from them while they are away, in case the party needs it. Or ask them to do something within their skillset, like asking the mage to identify a magical item. But they are safe from anything major happening to them.
One of the players asked the DM if the missing player's character could cast one of her spells (enhanced stealth), and the DM said only if enemies attacked the character, too, and he didn't want to possibly kill the character of a player who wasn't there actively play her own character.
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@Vixen said in D&D thread:
are now Kronk and Yzma
You say that like it's meant to have some significance...
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@Jaloopa said in D&D thread:
@Vixen said in D&D thread:
are now Kronk and Yzma
You say that like it's meant to have some significance...
not familiar with Emperor's new groove?
you're missing out man.... missing out.
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@Vixen I don't watch cartoons. I are a grown up
So, on Thursday while playing at being a gnome with my friends, the warlock tried to take a spell focus off a statue that turned out to be a mimic. There were also some wraiths that drained health but since I'm now level 5 I was able to fire two arrows at a time so we dispatched them quite quickly
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@Jaloopa said in D&D thread:
@Vixen I don't watch cartoons.
TL;DW version: Yzma is typical evil visier sort of person plotting to take over the empire. Kronk is good natured, happy go lucky not terribly bright oaf that helps Yzma, causing her plans to derail as often as helping her, and is seemingly incapable of detecting the alignment mismatch between himself and Yzma.
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?!"
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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?!"
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@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?!"
Push the button, Max!
/me pushes the big shiny red button marked "DO NOT PRESS. EVER. NO NOT EVEN IF YOU THINK IT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD IDEA THIS TIME"
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@Vixen MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXX!!!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@Vixen MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXX!!!
what" you told me to push the button, i pushed the button. if i should have pushed a different button you should have been more specific. i don't know what all these buttons do!
....... why is the floor rumbling ominously?
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@Vixen Not sure if or just way too in character.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@Vixen Not sure if or just way too in character.
i don't know either. what are you talking about anyway? also you should probably move away from that wall.... it seems to be on the verge of collapsing and i doubt you'd like it if it landed on you. Probably something to do with this ongoing earthquake.... feels like the whole building is collapsing. That's some shoddy workmanship I tell you.....
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@Vixen I was pointing out how the "pull the lever, none-too-bright henchman / HEY! Wrong lever!" gag is basically lifted straight from The Great Race, where it was a running gag for Dr. Fate's minion Max to push the wrong button, generally to disastrous effect.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@Vixen I was pointing out how the "pull the lever, none-too-bright henchman / HEY! Wrong lever!" gag is basically lifted straight from The Great Race, where it was a running gag for Dr. Fate's minion Max to push the wrong button, generally to disastrous effect.
Right. right. whatever you say..... But i really wouldn't continue to -earth shattering rumbling crash as ha'f the room collapses into an apparently bottomless pit.- stand there....
umm......
/me flees
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*remains standing, motionless and nonchalant, as the room collapses around him, staying still in midair even when the floor falls out from under him, then slowly fading out of existence*
Pfft, amateurs...
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
@Gurth Absent players in our group tend to get some minor disease, like a cold, enough to put them out of the action and just staying at the closest safe location for the duration.
I’ve heard of lots of people doing similar things, and I don’t think this works well at all from a believability standpoint.
Sure, it kind of makes sense from the players’ perspective:
“Yeah, sorry guys, I can’t make it to the game tonight because my pet azalea is sick and needs constant attention.”
[one week passes]
“Hey, I’ve got time to play tonight, did you miss me?”But from the characters’ perspective:
“Yea! I must send my deepest regrets, my fellow adventurers, but I cannot join you on your quest to the evil dragon’s lair as I have come down with influenza.”
[one hour passes]
“Greetings, my esteemed fellowship, I am healed from the influenza. I have missed all your company.”
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@Gurth Obviously she got a Cure Disease spell.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@Gurth Obviously she got a Cure Disease spell.
DM™: “Hey you, the priest, did you have Cure Disease memorised? Yes? Okay, mark one off as cast, then. Now on you all go, through the disease-infested swamp.”
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@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?!"
I regret that I have only one upboat to give. I've seen that movie more times than I can count. For many years, whenever telling one of my kids to push any button (on an elevator or whatever), the instruction was directed to "Max."
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@HardwareGeek Can't beat the classics...
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@Gurth said in D&D thread:
“Yea! I must send my deepest regrets, my fellow adventurers, but I cannot join you on your quest to the evil dragon’s lair as I have come down with influenza.”
[one hour passes, while rest of the party battles the evil dragon, cat's hair away from certain death, and now comes back with untold riches]
“Greetings, my esteemed fellowship, I am healed from the influenza. I have missed all your company."Oh, but completely believable.
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@Mason_Wheeler I wonder if that happens to be in the box of random DVDs and CDs I stuck in the car when I moved to Texas. Probably not...
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@HardwareGeek DVDs? I've got The Great Race on Amazon Instant Video!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@Vixen I was pointing out how the "pull the lever, none-too-bright henchman / HEY! Wrong lever!" gag is basically lifted straight from The Great Race, where it was a running gag for Dr. Fate's minion Max to push the wrong button, generally to disastrous effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9biklE2wA6M
I haven't seen that movie in ages.
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@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?
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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?
High C's?