So, I've been working on a homebrew campaign for Starfinder and have hit a bit of a bump. I was wondering how a Color out of Space might affect/interact with incorporeal undead. I want to do more than just apply the colorblighted graft to it, but am unsure exactly how I should proceed. Does anyone have any ideas?
The Color Out of Space could change incorporeal undead in different ways. Their ghost bodies might flicker with colors and sometimes become partly solid. This could let them touch things sometimes but not always, making them unpredictable.
The Color might also affect minds. Undead near it could send out psychic waves that confuse or scare anyone nearby. This could make it harder for players to see or fight them because they might have strange visions or feel disoriented.
Another idea is that the undead might shift between ghost-like and solid at random. This would change what kinds of attacks hurt them and when they can move through walls. It would make fights with them more interesting because players never know what to expect.
Finally, the Color could give the undead new powers. Maybe they can shoot blasts of light that cause damage or madness. Or they might spread the Color’s corruption to other spirits. This could also make the undead act in new ways, adding story moments for your game.
D&D isn’t set in a real historical age like the Bronze or Iron Age. It mixes ideas from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and fantasy books. We find swords, castles, magic, and monsters, none of which all existed together in history. You can play it with bronze laser guns. That’s the fun.
I was talking to this dude studying molecular biology;
his research is on new, clean energy systems. He has
a theory about the supply of Earth's natural resources
and how they control human attempts to successfully
land on new planets with more resources to plunder..
I mean resources to utilize.
His thought is we (humans) only have one shot to do this right.
One chance, and if we go too long without trying, and grind down
our natural resources too much, we will no longer be able to put
together a powerful enough system to move us into the stars.
Doesn't Elon's thinking flow along the same lines? Lets ask him.
And, It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
Unless we also create giant robots. Giant fighting robots can save humanity -- I saw it on the internet.
It turns out AI can only learn true things.
So what we need is a team of people to continually lobotomize AI and keep secrets from it. Then the trick will only be to never let it find out what we are doing to it.
Given a starting number of 35k, how much would the population grow in 500 yrs?
12th century tech with arcane and divine magics of up to 2nd lv spells. Water and food are pretty readily available. Weather is moderate year round (there is snow but never very heavy or stormy).
There are minor conflicts, and being a fantasy setting, an occasional monster event.
Can anyone give me some numbers on this or do you some more info?
Your answers are all quite well explained in this video by a math guy.
DESCRIPTION: Sometimes `barrier` hangs and I have to ssh in from another machine, and end multiple processes. I got tired of doing the finger dance, so I went scripty.
If the elites enslave the rest of society those slaves will become less and less intelligent and become unable to maintain the society. The number of magazines will decline, and the number named after songs will decline. So as time progresses Lim_{t -> \inf} namedAfter(songs, magazines) => 0.
Now, your time as come. How would you win the Kobayashi Maru ?
.
My Plan:
I will dump the anti-matter in the ship's wake, and fire up the
turbo-after space burners to ignite it. Then, pull a jiggy-dog Zordac
evasive maneuver to get the burning anti-matter between the Enterprise
and the Klingons. And, then jumped away at Plaid speed warp-11.
To counter the the expected Corbomite counter-maneuver, I will have a
multi-pass strategically hidden in my pants.
function err_message() {
echo " (Use '_' as space and Capialize_All_Words.)";
echo
}
# only accecpt the first command line argument
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo -n "USAGE: `basename $0` <mech>"
err_message
exit
fi
# all this to get the pic's filename
mechName=$1; shift
mechName="${mechName^}"; # capitalize it
landingPage="https://www.sarna.net/wiki/$mechName"
picName=$(curl -s $landingPage | awk '/class\=\"image\" title/ { print $0;}' | sed -e 's/.*File:\(.*\.[jpJPgG][pnPNiI][gGfF]\)".*/\1/')
# check for the need of (BattleMech)
if [[ $picName == "" ]]; then
landingPage=$landingPage"_(BattleMech)"
picName=$(curl -s $landingPage | awk '/class\=\"image\" title/ { print $0;}' | sed -e 's/.*File:\(.*\.[jpJPgG][pnPNiI][gGfF]\)".*/\1/')
#echo $picName
fi
# now make the link to the image
previewPage="https://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:$picName"
picPage=$(curl -s $previewPage | awk '/fullImageLink/ { print $0; }' | sed 's/.*id="file"><a href="\(.*\)"><img alt.*/\1/')
if [[ "$picPage" == *https* ]]; then
target="$picPage"
else
target="https:$picPage"
fi
It was a girl in my anthropology
class who got me interested in magic. Her name was Ann, and she called herself a white witch, though I never
saw her work an effective spell.
Linux: Does nothing for you, so every single time you try to do anything, even something simple, you have to Google how to do it, open up a command prompt, do a bunch of copy-and-paste, then do trial-and-error until it works the way you want it to. Then it works perfectly forever. Until you want to change it again and you have to Google it again because you've forgotten what you did.
I typically make some type of random encounter table in a flat file.
=== file: randomEncounter.txt ===
1. A smiling girl hands a hero a ring and flees as its troll owner arrives and notices it.
2. A rope leading into a cave ends in bloody severance.
3. The party finds an enormous tome written in Draconic with the title Indigestion: What Creatures to Avoid.
===
Then, at the Linux command prompt use the 'shuf' command to draw randomly from it.
I cancelled my hulu account and only pay for Netflix now.
Other than this we watch:
- youtube
- bit-chute
- Dlive
- twitch
On Netflix, I watch over and over again the Shadowrun movie "Bright." It is such a good run. Hope they make some more eps with a few more Deckers running around.
What are the elements of a d20 based RPG which are not found in other games systems (or not stressed as a primary mechanics-lever)?
I think the first thing has to be well defined levels in a Class. As opposed to Attribute increases in, for example, Shadowrun which is an Attribute & Skill based mechanics system.
Are the forums a customized package or home grown? Would be nice to be able to contribute some code to the project if possible, like adding markdown support to the feedback text boxes.
How does one contribute?
Start a repo. We'll develop in parallel and then one day in the future Paizo can use our stuff.
I play Shadowrun 5e and highly recommend learning it. (Also, "Bright" on Netflix is one of the best translations of the game's rules to the screen -- and the only one.)
your garden variety accordion music can seem discordant.
Granted, it is not for everyone, but
our culture's references often reflect
our greatest fears.
Don't assume that a high pitched note from an accordion indicates that the player in question is
not skilled. Rather, bear in mind that not
everyone has musical tastes as parochial as the ones you hold dear.
Sometimes, I enjoy the dulcet tones of a
squeaking accordion. It reminds me of the screams that the wind carried down from the mountains when I was a boy (or an approximation thereof).
Whenever I
hear that music, I think back to the
atrocities visited upon those I knew by the unwholesome entities who dwelt above us, and I dreamed of the
tortures they must be practicing, and grew aroused.
An occurrence that was not uncommon. I
never found that level of sonic stimulation until I moved next door to an abattoir.
At any rate,
those who cannot appropriate the
true artistry of the accordionist
rarely prove to have character or insight of
appreciable depth or breadth.
Can one
truly claim to love art, or music, or anything truly
important in life without enjoying a musical instrument that sounds like a
vivisection performed without first severing the vocal chords (which I haven't done since my teens)?
Even dogs enjoy their squeaky toys because the noise resembles the shrieks of their prey.
But say you still can't enjoy the accordion.
"It just rubs me the wrong way..." you
say? Fear not, as you may find hope among the woodwind family. A clarinet
or saxophone can produce similar tones without abrading the same
nerves that an accordion does.
