D&D thread
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I'm hurt by all the strays Cy is catching in this sub-thread.
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@Gurth I suspect that's partly because so many characters don't have much of a personality. I know I've certainly made shallow characters. So when the personality is just one thing (or just a couple of simple things), going against it is going against all that character stands for... because they hardly stand for anything.
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@Gurth said in D&D thread:
The kind who refuses to do anything that goes against what the character is supposed to believe in, no matter how trivial or how useful it would be to get the character or the group out of trouble.
There was a campaign in which the central objective of the quest violated my lawful good wizard's ethics. A shopkeeper was suspected of selling tainted potions and poisoning people (children, IIRC). We were supposed to steal some potions for evidence.
My wizard said no, can't steal, even for a good cause. (Looting corpses and dungeons is fine, of course, but stealing from a shop isn't.
) But I have a friend who kinda lives around the neutral/chaotic good/neutral border; she'd be willing to do it, and she some attributes that could come in very handy. Potions are her specialty; she might be able to tell if any of the potions are poisoned, so you know what to take. Also, the background info we knew about the shopkeeper was that he had a thing for female elves, and the friend happened to be a female elf. That might be useful in getting access to non-public parts of the shop. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. So the party agreed, and I played as that character. (The second attribute didn't work out. My son was the DM, and when my character tried to flirt with the shopkeeper, he said, no, Dad, I'm not roleplaying that with you; absolutely not.)Just to finish the story, I forget the details, but we wound up not actually stealing anything. We somehow got into the basement, where he was involved in some kind of demonic ritual, combat occurred, and we killed him. We found a letter from the headmaster or headmistress of the school where the children were being poisoned, showing they were collaborating on killing the children for
I don't remember, and took that as evidence against the school headmistress. Or something like that. There's probably a post 
with more details.
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Playing Shadowrun today, the players had reason to travel from Seattle to New Orleans. One of them has a pilot contact, so they paid her to fly them there in a fairly small plane. That means a bunch of stops along the way to refuel, and yesterday, I actually went to the trouble of working out a reasonable route for them to take.
One of the stops was in Des Moines, Iowa, United Canadian and American States. “Oh,” says one of the players, “Slipknot is from there.” “Des Moines?” I ask. “Not sure. Iowa, in any case,” he replies. As by this point in the journey, they had been flying for most of the day and it was getting dark, they decided to stay overnight in a motel near the airport.
An offhand joke about how there must surely be a Slipknot poser gang around those parts lead to the PCs being woken up in the middle of the night by loud noise from the parking lot. When they carefully checked, they found it was caused by two groups of people wearing orange jumpsuits and horrific masks carrying musical instruments, both with a pickup truck with a huge sound system on the back, playing loud music at each other and trying to outdo the other in both ability and volume. Until, that is, someone in one of the groups took out his shotgun and started shooting out the other side’s speakers. From there on, the sound became that of a running gunfight from which both sides eventually started to withdraw.
Meanwhile the PC street samurai had gotten his light machine gun out and watched all this from his motel room window, wondering if he should try and disperse them with it. And considering whether he should perhaps throw a WP hand grenade between the groups — which he decided not to do “because they’re kind of expensive.” In the end he felt it was best to stay out of the fight, though, largely because they needed to travel on the next morning and he didn’t want to be on the run from the cops at the time.
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@Gurth said in D&D thread:
cops
That makes me think of my recent experiences in cyberpunk 2077. Cops will only get off their arse for two things: Murder, or scratched paint on a cop cruiser.
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@PleegWat said in D&D thread:
@Gurth said in D&D thread:
cops
That makes me think of my recent experiences in cyberpunk 2077. Cops will only get off their arse for two things: Murder, or scratched paint on a cop cruiser.
The game needs to add "destruction of a donut stand" to that list.
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@dkf I'm not sure if it even has doughnut stands. If it does, it's probably an immovable object.
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@PleegWat said in D&D thread:
@dkf I'm not sure if it even has doughnut stands. If it does, it's probably an immovable object.
If donut stands need to be added, so much the better. Night City's Finest will thank you.
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@dkf Also just found out, apparently vehicular manslaughter doesn't need to be a problem. You can get insurance against it. Not available to the player though...
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@PleegWat said in D&D thread:
@dkf I'm not sure if it even has doughnut stands. If it does, it's probably an immovable object.
Like the cops inside it?
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Is it more or less effective than giving him biscuits?
(preempting
: "won't work on me, unless they are gluten-free")
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I named my goblin D&D character Głąb.
He's a Fighter 1 / Barbarian 2 / Rogue 1, and speaks broken Common
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in D&D thread:
I named my goblin D&D character Głąb.
Does he get upset when people keep mispronouncing his name as "Glab"?
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@Zerosquare He's a goblin. He's always upset.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Is he small enough to ride into battle on a goose?
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@dkf Goose of Unusual Size
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@DogsB said in D&D thread:
The cute animals tends to be distracting the entire table, by jumping up on it and demanding cuddles, looking cute and knocking over figures and scenery.
Edit: Or just going straight to the DM for cuddles, so he can look like Blofeld.
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
@DogsB said in D&D thread:
The cute animals tends to be distracting the entire table, by jumping up on it and demanding cuddles, looking cute and knocking over figures and scenery.
Edit: Or just going straight to the DM for cuddles, so he can look like Blofeld.
And this is why you just use pictures of cute animals.
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@Atazhaia said in D&D thread:
Edit: Or just going straight to the DM for cuddles, so he can look like Blofeld.
That explains why Blofeld always looked like a DM...
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Reminds me of:
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@Zerosquare I read an opinion years ago that being a successful raid leader in an MMO is valuable management experience and should be listed on your CV.
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@PleegWat said in D&D thread:
@Zerosquare I read an opinion years ago that being a successful raid leader in an MMO is valuable management experience and should be listed on your CV.
I’ve definitely started referencing it in interviews.
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@Zerosquare Pretty close to my DM's setup. He does use models, figures, terrain, fog and lighting effects. And music and sounds. And a two-layered table, just with the middle section raised instead of sank.
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Crap quality, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fTkXQ1tY0
I wouldn’t want any of this for playing RPGs, though. Draw a map when it’s necessary to clarify the situation, sure, but other than that, I maintain RPGs work better in your head than out in front of you. But I guess that just shows my age …
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@Zerosquare I would absolutely love to play at a table like that, but there's no way in hell that I'd set up a table like that. (That said, I prefer playing over running, so I'm not about to pull out all the stops when running a game.)
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My brother has a table a bit like this (with the sunken middle) though he uses it for board games, not RPGs. There is a nice wooden top that slots on top of the sunken part, so you can actually use it as a regular (dinner) table while still leaving a game fully laid out below. There are also some add-ons that clip to the side, such as drink holders (so you don't balance your drink on the edge, or put it in the middle) and tablets (if you need e.g. to write on a character sheet), but those are a bit gimmicky and not much used.
It's a bespoke thing that cost him a small fortune, but it is a real nice piece of massive wooden furniture and it sees enough use to make it worth it (for him)...
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It was nowhere near as fancy, but someone I played RPGs with twenty years ago, when he moved house, bought a dinner table seating eight people specifically so it would be big enough for the whole RPG group to sit around. Though it was a regular dinner table, it was hand-made and quite expensive. When he got some cats a bit later on, he also wouldn’t let them onto it for fear of getting scratches on his table.
At one point during a game, somebody knocked over a glass and spilled a drink over the table. Nothing to worry about, happens every so often and we got the character sheets and books out of the way quickly enough.
I then noticed there was a puddle of drink on the floor under the table, despite the puddle on the table not having reached the edges.
It was at this point we found out that this expensive table, that its owner was so proud of, had been made of unseasoned wood. Several of the planks in the tabletop had cracked all the way through, up to several millimetres wide in places …
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@Gurth said in D&D thread:
we got the character sheets and books out of the way quickly enough.
Never mind the fancy, expensive table; save the important stuff!
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@HardwareGeek Well, duh! :)
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@Mason_Wheeler Looks like someone is confusing handegg and football.
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@PleegWat Looks like someone is confusing football and soccer.
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@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
@PleegWat Looks like someone is confusing football and soccer.
Sportsball is hard, let’s writhe on the ground until we get what we want!
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@Mason_Wheeler the game you describe is actually closer to a wargame than an RPG (but then so is D&D for many groups), but if you like
fake footballrugby, it is very fun and quite accurately reproduces the actual thing (minus the actual concussions & physical violence (inb4: where's the fun then?)):
Crash Tackle Rugby Game
You break down the blind side and tear through the defence. You're out in the clear. Almost. The only thing standing between you and international rugby glory is 120kg's of bone crunching muscle. You've got the pace, but have you got the guts?
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Bonus: got to NodeBB's disconsistency
None of the threads lower down each list were in common.
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@Tsaukpaetra Thanks, I needed that. I had unexpected visitors and I did not break down.
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Yesterday’s Shadowrun game was a learning moment for the player who bought WP grenades a while ago, but had never actually used any yet.
The three PCs are loading stuff onto a boat, which their NPC guide is getting ready to move, when four guys walk towards them down the pier the boat is moored at. The PCs realise these guys are probably up to no good, so they start getting their weapons out; the guys do the same in response and start shooting while they’re closing the distance. Rather than going for one of his guns, though, the street samurai decides that four bad guys on a narrow pier is a good target for a grenade. Which he wasn’t really wrong about. What he did do wrong, was aim the grenade only about ten metres away. He was lucky that it scattered three metres directly away from him, ending up slightly behind the attackers.
One of the bad guys had already been swept off the pier by the river spirit that the PC shaman summoned before the grenade was thrown. The remaining three took very bad wounds from the explosion, but …
WP grenades in SR have a blast radius of 14 metres — putting the street sam a metre inside of that. And since the shaman was right next to him (but crouched down behind part of the boat), he also took damage from the grenade. The third PC and the NPC guide were further back and so out of harm’s way. The sam is so big and tough that he didn’t take any damage from the blast at all. The shaman, being decidedly less tough, did take damage but not too badly.
However, WP grenades in SR have the side effect that if you were hit by them, you take a small mount of damage for the next fifteen turns, to represent the burning phosphorus …
The shaman almost got killed by this, and was only saved by extreme effort by all the other characters around, while the sam bought himself some time by jumping into the river before the others could put effort into getting the WP particles off him as well.
