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I maintain that the biggest issue here is that from the 3.x days, fans were emailing in saying that certain combat maneuvers were "unrealistic" and to an extent that is fine, but as noone here can undertake magic, divine or arcane, it lead to issues where magic could not be checked for "realism" and so hobbled all non magical play.

Drejk wrote:

Redfall is 75% off and it is still far too expensive.

...and is still an incredibly crappy game... I strongly recommend not bothering, even if it hits 99% off.

...not a fan, I take it.

Quiet.

The boss (to his uncle, who runs a different landscape company): I found Yesterday an assistant this year so he's really moving along!

The Uncle: No s@@*! Who'd you find that can work with Yesterday?!

The Boss: his daughter!

The Uncle: Wait!... so there's TWO Yesterday's now?!!

This is getting out of hand.

Oh-so-political, but Fritzy hasn't gotten any exercise in a while:

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GRRRAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH

Hm. I'll check it out after Dungeon Meshi.

As a final rant on the subject for the day, I think it all boils down to how you think about paying for services.

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Captain Yesterday and David M Mallon would be the best people to consult on this. In my area finishing ahead of time would result in (1), because everyone plays loosey goosey with time and it would indeed seem like someone is ripping someone else off because depending on the type of arrangement made along with the definition of services, now nothing can happen for 2 days because work was supposed to be done at that time.

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Damn bluebirds...

I was just about to make the same Rat Queens reference, but you beat me to it...

RAT QUEENS TO THE SLAUGHTER!

captain yesterday wrote:

Yeah, my entire first weekend was basically a wash because I helped invade the druid grove and didn't find out that that would shut off Karlach until Sunday.

The famous one glorious moment of drow sex versus Spend a satisfying rest of the game with Karlach conundrum.

...I don't want to play this game anymore...

I need to shave soon. I cannot hang out with Celestial Healer looking a horror.

Me: Okay phone, set an alarm called "movie" for Friday at 8 pm!

Phone: You got it Freehold! Calling Indiana Power Company like you asked!

Me:...what?

I don't mind the occasional bit of white chocolate. But it gets to be too much too quickly.

Drejk wrote:

Well, they still haven't reached the point where you have to spill the blood of your firstborn each time you log in.

You realize that we're talking about my firstborn here, don't you?

NobodysHome: Hey, Impus Minor! The dentist sent your wisdom teeth home with you. Do you want them for any reason?
Impus Minor: No! Why would I?
NH: Hey, Impus Major! Do you want your brother's teeth?
Impus Major: Oh, boy, do I!

I have no idea what he's going to do with them, but he was cacklingly ecstatic to get them.

They didn't let me keep my tooth when it was removed!

Fantasy Monster: Grave Worms

A swarm of corpse-fed earthworms.

I found your streetlight, Stat it up

Snuck?

I almost got into a serious accident.

I was driving to the fancy farmers market on the other side of town. It's really windy. The car is shaking in the wind and the trees are dancing. So I'm waiting at the light. I'm the first car in the line so I'm right under the light. I hear the siren for a some kind of emergency vehicle and I notice it's coming up from the driver's side and I just wait patiently. He breezes past me, getting a bit close for my comfort (it's a fire truck) and I notice that the light changed as he went by. Huh. Weird, and a bit of a jerk for getting so close but whatever. So I start to drive and i notice noone else is moving. This is weird so I look around and I see the light was red again. This was insane. It was green a moment ago. I stopped immediately and notice I was already past the crosswalk, and I am in the intersection. Naturally, the cops are in the lane next to me on the passengers side. I am mortified. It turns out it's so windy THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL HAS ROTATED AND I WAS LOOKING AT THE WRONG SIGNAL THIS WHOLE TIME.

I try to back up but there's no point- the right light changed for real this time. I drive on, and the cops ignore me.

Thank GOD there was no oncoming traffic...

Food. Good.

Feed.

Me.

Augh.

"Ms. Scint, is this okay for my presentation?"

"Let me see."
Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. He was stupid, and nobody liked him. Not one person.
"...let's try 'He was not widely popular.'"

I heard he was a mean old caca head.

so, on my way home this morning, i'm scrolling through my YouTube feed, and . . .

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not my kids. not my problem(s).

but WHATTHEACTUALF!#+??!!

BigNorseWolf wrote:

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Sorry to hear that. But it does make me political: What is the Greater Good? Allowing those who need pain medication to receive it rather than living in agony, or blocking everyone from getting pain medication to avoid abuse and/or addiction?

I know which camp I'm in.

But yes, whether or not we all seem to agree on something doesn't mean it's not political, so I'll drop it now.

Everyone deserves medication for whatever they are dealing with, especially if it's crippling pain(physical or emotional).

Addiction and abuse is the line, especially where the companies that made the medication either cooked books or withheld information/lied by omission with respect to said medications side effects or true effect over longitudinal time is concerned.

I heard rumors that helldivers 2 was a play-against-type game, I guess this is how.

Popped in to post something. Saw Freehold's response. Need to pause a bit to recover...

Hey someone had to say it.

If thou tapest togethere ii speares to make an MEGA-SPEARE, and fyghteth with it against anothere MEGA-SPEARE, thou hast only thineselfe to blayme when thou dost get MEGA-SPEAREDETH in ye Crotch.

I already have a mega spear in my crotch.

Freehold DM wrote:

I really really like this one.

Of course. She's a milkmaid

..an EVIL milkmaid.

Fantasy NPC: Livya Arna, Failed Golddigger

Her prospects for marrying rich aren't particularly good right now...

I really really like this one. Evil people need to have personalities to really work as villains...or victims.

Update on Mother Grizzly: I tracked down both brothers, we had a conference call, and we got her a week of 24/7 care. Plus it turns out Younger Brother is still in Seattle so he can check in on her regularly until older brother returns.

And her issue was "critically low sodium levels", which annoys me because she's in an assisted care facility where they monitor her diet, so that's a major strike for them. It's pretty hard to get too little sodium in an American diet...

No, that's only for fast food. Once you're in assisted living nearly everyone is sodium restricted. Man was that difficult at the last job.

Here's hoping she makes yet another full recovery.

I am okay.

Didn't feel anything but i work in the Bronx so it was different here.

One of my staff is freaking out. HE felt a lot a little ways down the street from the job(he lives in the Bronx, I am an idiot who commutes from Brooklyn.)

Apparently it was worse in Brooklyn. Mom is freaking out and friends DEFINITELY felt it.

This makes the 3rd earthquake where I felt nothing.

Rest assured, at my table gods do not die so much as they go away for a while, and come back, sorta kinda American Gods/Scion style.

I've mentioned this before, but I'm really bothered by modern contests that use online voting. I think I posted a couple of years ago that a parent was broadcasting to our 3,000+ person channel to vote for their kid's science project in their middle school science fair. Now we've got our SVPs encouraging their entire organizations to vote for projects submitted to a public competition.

I am (mostly) Lawful. I'm not going to vote for a project I've never seen in a contest I've never even heard of. Unfortunately, I am in the tiny minority and hundreds of my co-workers are responding, "Oooooh, yeah! Go team!" and throwing down their votes.

I suspect that it was because I was remarkably unpopular as a kid, but turning any kind of competition into a popularity contest (even in the form of, "How many co-workers do you have?") really rubs me the wrong way.

"But everybody does it! That's how contests are done now!"

That doesn't make it right.

Grumble, mutter... goes back to oatmeal...

Hark! The paladin is against voting! I knew it! Down with Law! Up with Chaos!

I am posting my support of your offline testing several days after the fact!

Been a long time, old man.

NobodysHome wrote:

(2) Stereotypical New Yorkers learn Honking as a Second Language (HSL) on turning 16

My tired brain interpreted this as "New Yorkers become the Untitled Goose at 16."

No, that's 15.

Freehold DM wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

I may be slightly opinionated, but at this point I'm ready to pass a law arming garbage men sanitation engineers with pellet guns and permission to shoot out the windows of any cars that honk at them.

Have you ever seen a garbage strike? People don't want to haul garbage in their own precious cars, so the streets line up with filth alarmingly quickly -- I'm always astonished at just how much waste most households produce.

And yet almost every single week, our sanitation engineers are here cheerfully doing their jobs (they are uniformly really nice guys; I have yet to meet one of them who doesn't greet you with a wave and a smile when you rush to push out the cans for them. Of course, it's probably their morning entertainment and you're saving them from having to get off the truck to push out the cans themselves, but...). And some car pulls up right behind them and starts honking. "Stop doing your job on this narrow street! I can't possibly be bothered to back up and turn around! You need to stop what you're doing, skip this block, and come back once I'm through!"

The staggering entitlement of it is appalling.

You don't want to know what would happen if we tried what you suggest around here.

(1) Stereotypical New Yorkers are paragons of entitlement

No, someone turning around on one of our side streets that sanitation loves to use and driving the wrong way down a one way street(unless youre in Queens, naturally) would create a massive, massive car accident, followed by someone popping a trunk open and things getting ugly.

(2) Stereotypical New Yorkers learn Honking as a Second Language (HSL) on turning 16

No, 18.

I may be slightly opinionated, but at this point I'm ready to pass a law arming garbage men sanitation engineers with pellet guns and permission to shoot out the windows of any cars that honk at them.

Have you ever seen a garbage strike? People don't want to haul garbage in their own precious cars, so the streets line up with filth alarmingly quickly -- I'm always astonished at just how much waste most households produce.

And yet almost every single week, our sanitation engineers are here cheerfully doing their jobs (they are uniformly really nice guys; I have yet to meet one of them who doesn't greet you with a wave and a smile when you rush to push out the cans for them. Of course, it's probably their morning entertainment and you're saving them from having to get off the truck to push out the cans themselves, but...). And some car pulls up right behind them and starts honking. "Stop doing your job on this narrow street! I can't possibly be bothered to back up and turn around! You need to stop what you're doing, skip this block, and come back once I'm through!"

The staggering entitlement of it is appalling.

You don't want to know what would happen if we tried what you suggest around here.

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

And finished. The final mission was actually fun. Nothing exceptional, but still fun.

But did you play the SPECIAL mission?

That depends on what was special about it?

The special one, Brother

That's from Watch Dogs 1, which I have finished long ago.

I don't really remember that one, but I think I got the Destroyer for completing all 10 Criminal Convoys.

Ah I thought it was watch dogs 2. Never mind.

Still it blew my mind that these games take place in the same universe.

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

And finished. The final mission was actually fun. Nothing exceptional, but still fun.

But did you play the SPECIAL mission?

That depends on what was special about it?

The special one, Brother

Fantasy NPC: Honorable Belzaine, The Pale Squire.

Not-a-vampire.

I really really really like this!!!

PEOPLE! SO MANY PEOPLE VISIBLE TO ME! MORESO THAN NORMAL! AAAHHHH!

232. For a moment (1d3+1 rounds), you possess an empathic insight to the point some would term it divine omniscience. You are connected to every living thing for miles upon miles around, but it isn't unpleasant, in fact, you have a moment of equal compassion and understanding, even if such feelings are alien to you normally. When the moment ends, you are aware of your characters level of random facts about people around you, some of which are quite personal, but only (your characters Wisdom bonus +1, minimum 1) actually apply to your character's current adventure.

As the feeling fades, you find your character has a few options- become involved in the doings of the lives you touched, for good or for ill, depending on the character's alignment and inclinations, or research the hell out of that potion and try to experience such effects again.

And finished. The final mission was actually fun. Nothing exceptional, but still fun.

But did you play the SPECIAL mission?

A true legend.

May he rest peacefully.

I can't have carbonated beverages or artificial sweeteners because they both give me an upset stomach, and carbonation in my intestines is very uncomfortable. That said, I'd consider stabbing someone for a cold sugary Dr Pepper right now, and I'd happily drink it fully knowing how much it'd hurt me later

perhaps it is time...

Drejk wrote:

Ugh. I hoped that the mission I have started on Watch Dogs 2 will be the last one, but apparently there are four more...

NobodysHome, if you hear about an young Afro-American male rampaging across the Bay area, don't worry. I'll try to finish before the end of the month.

I am pushing through but this game is really tedious in some aspects...

Resquiat en pace.

The easiest way to interpret this, in my opinion, is to lean on the fact that Lie is a Deception activity, and to simply rule that in order to obey this anathema, a follower of Sarenrae simply won't be allowed to take this activity. Other uses of Deception would be allowed, including Impersonate, but those tactics should not be a "go-to" for a Sarenite.

In your example, where the adventure asks the PCs to infiltrate an enemy fortress to accomplish a greater good, the Sarenite can still play the game. She'd just not be able to take the Lie action. Disguises are fine, and when it comes to a point where the PCs have to talk to interact with a guard, the Sarenite, if she chooses to take part in that roleplaying encounter, should rely on tactics that use Diplomacy or Intimidation to try to get by, or simply let other party members do the lying for the group. (As an aside, this is one of many reasons why it's important for the GM to select multiple skills for solutions when presenting the group with an obstacle that requires skill checks to defeat.)

Keep in mind that other anathemas like "fail to strike down evil" or "edicts like "provide aid or protect allies" are good "triggers" to keep in mind that would allow a Sarenite to engage in the above sort of deceptive shenanigan... but they'd still best not use the Lie activity.

If the infiltration isn't about going in to prevent an evil or do a rescue or the like, then the Sarenite could still go along but wouldn't feel comfortable on the mission, and you as the GM should keep that in mind when running the adventure and do your best to give the Sarenite a reason to want to accompany the rest of the group if the infiltration is a plot-bearing requirement of the adventure.

Interesting interpretation....

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WOOOOOOOOOO!!!! The Celica is BACK, baby!

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So, after 2 years of Elden Ring what video game has me so absorbed in it 2 hours fly by.

Dragon's Dogma 2? Nope.

The Witcher 3? No.

Baldur's Gate 3? Again, no.

Forza Horizon 5!

G%%%!+n, is it fun!

wow, insulting the Witcher 3?

Frozen or partially frozen flavored Greek yogurt really does scratch the ice cream itch.