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How is "Attack" a plan? It's the exact opposite of a plan. Leeroyjenkinsbat already qualifies as our "don't have a plan" plan. What the hell happened to him anyway? He was...interesting.
Perturbed? Streetwise? Those are adjectives, not even nouns, let alone synonymous with plans!
I did indeed start it. I even suggested Gambitbear's name, and threw a fit when people didn't follow the pattern (Uppercase plan synonym, lowercase animal name, no spaces). This is assuredly my most anal retentive alias.
We are legion.
Pssst. Look what you quoted...Wrong alias for that reply...mythic at least, man. Priorities.I am. THAT WAS THE BEST NINJA EDIT EVER! It was regular TL when I hit reply!
Note: It said ask him to - it didn't say he necessarily would. You're going to have to earn your own favorites...
Arg! How much am I being paid for this gig?! One Million Dollars* per year. *: Zimbabwe Dollars, that is.
You've been Bushing around, so I took the liberty of Cheney-ing behind the scenes while you were taking yet another vacation at the ranch.
Anyway, didn't we just elect TL president a few months ago? What is this, a coup?! There is a Hippo in the Lion's Den people, I repeat, there is a Hippo in the Lion's Den. This is not a drill!
Batman vs. Punisher vs. Iron Man vs. Hawkeye vs. Green Arrow, five man battle royale of Marvel and DC's most well known non-powered characters. They have one hour to prepare and do not know who they will battle exactly. The field is, let's say Death Valley at midnight on a cloudless night with a full moon, all approaching from opposite ends of the desert. They are allowed only as much equipment as they can carry or wear, so Iron Man does not have access to like 372 suits when he needs to change styles. What is the order of elimination? Who survives to the end? Why?
We went over this a few months back. She's Tacticslioness. Orthos is Gambitbear, by the way (Oh my!) It was a good day when the cunningplanimals came together.
...and get resurrected in Episode X, along with Darth Maul, because Disney knows how to print money.
Anyhow, Strategytiger, all of your political positions are wrong. No arguing back: dragons just have a superior ideology to tigers. All of them? Given I was recently told that I seem to follow no heuristic basis for ideology, and my individualized positions on popular issues fit literally no existing party as a whole, including third parties, then by extension, if you're saying I'm totally and completely wrong with everything, then you, too, and by extension the truth you assert, have no rhyme nor reason to your positioning - because with all my contradictions following no pattern, neither then does the opposite. This means I am, actually, right about at least one thing - that all of the major parties are wrong. Which makes you wrong, because you asserted that absolutely everything I believe is wrong. So, you see, calling me wrong about everything is a logical fallacy, a paradox, and impossible.
Why do I particpate in political conversation? Actually, why does anyone? I don't think I've met anyone who's had an opinion changed by it, even when the discussions are rational and well formed. Everyone simply entrenches further in their original belief. If someone is undecided on an issue, they probably don't care in the first place and aren't paying attention to those talking. On another note, I miss playing IRL (group is being pretty flaky with finals, the holidays, and the like - I've had at least five groups disband because they couldn't get back on schedule after the thanksgiving to new years lull), and I'm tired of only being the GM online. That being said, life is still pretty awesome, because those are seriously first world issues to whine about. When "oh, noes, I can't play my free hobby as often as I'd like" is your major concern, life is good. (Ah, there are a few real life concerns, like needing a new car, but meh, whatever.)
An expression of ambivalence.
Hey, I wasn't personally involved in this stuff this time around, except knowing my tithes and offerings went into this...and I think we put a little extra on one of the people leaving's gofundme account to finance their ticket...but yeah, it's kind of nice that my church is out there trying to live up to its name. ...but yeah, I want to do more for the next one.
My church had some folks just came back from a mission trip to Nicaragua with photos and videos from it. The "houses" these people lived in...I expected like thatch huts, similar to the ones we saw in Peru, but...they were literally plastic refuse roofs stretched over sticks, like, some awful homeless tents in just...mud. So, yeah...that's humbling. So proud that my church doesn't just build pews and throw potluck dinners. A couple years ago we got money together to build rain barrels and wells in Uganda! SO...I'm gonna find out what I can do to help the next trip. :-)
Yeah, but imitation can be a form of flattery. Plus, it's not like it isn't fun.
Wait, TL has been interjecting between our comments this entire time?!
I almost bought the Power Armor Brotherhood of Steel bobble head guy at GameStop. Almost. I resisted the temptation; all he would do is decorate my cubicle, anyway. I'm sitting in a mall bench waiting on my wife, mom, and brother, who are all shopping. I. Hate. Black. Friday.
I hate Black Friday. No, I'm not working. I still hate it.
War. War never changes. Oh come on, that wasn't even relevant.
Honestly, I hated the 4e story change so much I stopped paying attention, and I used to follow FR regularly. Seriously it went from a deep unique tapestry to just another generic fantasy world.
Shar: Unkilled since the dawn of time. Secondary goddess of magic, creator of the Shadow Weave and mother of the original Mystra. In every edition uninjured. How is the magic portfolio unstable again? Internal logical consistency, where art thou?
Strategytiger likes cheese. Strictly speaking, he is infatuated with it, to the point where he will always accept cheese, even when totally gut-bustingly, Homer Simpson "uuugh, Enchiladas!" Full.
Okay, the list of things to not mention around TGTG has expanded to includeProbably safer this way. It also wouldn't hurt to avoid bringing up education, politics, and... Crap, what else do I soapbox on?
I'm just under 1000 favorited by others, but my ratio is almost 1/2. This may be because I say what people are all thinking. On what I swear is an unrelated note... Trump and Clinton are both horrible for different reasons and if it comes down to them I'm voting 3rd party. Again.
I'm curious about CY's birthdays...but not curious enough to brave the depths of FaWTL. No...that's...that's a rabbithole I'm not willing to dive into... My mom's entire family came to visit around my...11th or 12th birthday... we were living in Orlando at the time. They went out to Wet and Wild ON my birthday, and I had to go to school. EVERYONE. WENT. BUT. ME. ON. MY. BIRTHDAY. My mom had vacation days. My dad...I don't remember. My family visiting from Germany. Even my brother, as he was like 4 at the time, and hadn't yet started school. It was adamant I don't miss school. It was the second day of school. I remind my mother of this every year on my birthday. It's been over 20 years. I forgave her, but I'll be damned if I'm letting her forget that one. That was a good time, otherwise. My cousin kept swearing in English and his dad had no idea what he was saying. The one time he said "sheizen" (sp?) though, he got popped, and HARD. Pretty funny considering he otherwise sounded like a George Carlin standup routine in the 1970s and his dad had no clue.
EDIT: I would also like very much to meet this tac. o: Methinks we may soon have a new Cunningplanimal.
I haven't seen a TV show worth the cost of so much as basic cable in over ten years. The only time I watch TV is when it's incidentally included in my internet package. Seriously, I'll pay a dollar less if it means no TV. I do, sometimes, grab really old shows from the library on DVD (currently on Psych season 5, and enjoying it), or stream them, but nothing has been exceptional enough to warrant any sort of fee whatsoever. I guess when books are free, and the internet is included in my cellphone package, I don't see the point of paying for entertainment. This generation really puts too much emphasis on entertainment. Our society idolizes people who merely alleviate boredom - and only temporarily, at that. Think of five actors. Think of five scientists. Which took you longer? Maybe it's the celebrity aspect? After all, not many scientists are famous (which is part of the problem). Think of five musicians. Think of five politicians.
Wat? 
I should be shunned for not thinking of this one sooner, I blame Tacticslion for getting the shunning thread locked by not being there :-) I'm thinking the rest of the summer will be the time of "blame Tacticslion for not being there". Guess who this alias was made to spoof!
It could be worse. They could be Comcast.
Wait, I thought TL was a President, not a king. Does that change me from a VP to some kind of Vizier? You know what Pratchett says, now I need to start planning my inevitable takeover scheme, only to have some young upstart take me out.
Use a smartphone and the Speak Now feature.
I enjoy my nephews and nieces when I feel like it (mom and dad are always ready to get a couple hours of downtime at the drop of a hat) and when they get on my nerves, they go home. It's just that simple. Any aspect I don't feel like dealing with, I don't. Any aspect I do, with mom and dad's permission, I do. I skip talking about sex with my niece and leave that to her parents, but tell her about picking a college or whatnot. I avoided diapers with the nephew, but later take him to play videogames at Dave and Busters. You cannot tell me this is anything less than perfection. Also, because they don't always see me, I can let them do stuff that would get on my nerves if it was 24/7, or would be bad for them if they experienced it all the time. It's always a treat for them to see me as a result. Since I don't buy their necessities, everything I give them is luxury, so in their eyes I look WAY more generous than mom and dad, even though I spend maybe 5% a year in comparison...Because kids don't care about food, shelter, clothes, utilities, and even everyday luxuries like cable or air conditioning, because they've never gone without, and to them it's all just expected. Because of all this, they're a heck of a lot more psyched when I pick them up from school or pop by the house to visit, and they have no idea that as much as I love them it pales in comparison to their parents.
The above post is one of the reasons why I want kids.... You can do the same with nieces and nephews, without dealing with the negatives associated with having your own kids. Uncle life FTW!
I really didn't want to start reading and favoriting everything to make up for your absence. True fact I totally made up - total favoriting on the boards dropped by 7% in your absence.
Wow that's some post "graduation" hang over for the tactically minded kitty clan:-) ... ... ...Well, at least you put it in quotations, so you could be using it ironically.
I'm happy for you! That's great! I'm even happier that you didn't say "graduating kindergarten"! why I don't like that phrase: My cousin keeps saying that about her son, and many schools are tossing that term around and doing ceremonies, and it's just too much. I get positively reinforcing their desired actions, but...
1) it's kindergarten. Admittedly it's way harder than I was as a kid (my pre-k teacher friends have kids writing and doing simple math already), but it's one year. 2) it's not fair to call it a graduation when you have to go right back in two months. It's not even moving up to a new school. It's still elementary. Preschool is more of a justified "graduation" thank K. 3) it's setting them up for disappointment when they don't do this every year. Kids have ridiculous memories at that age. My brother could remember stuff from when he couldn't talk when he was five.
Lewis Carol is significantly less interesting when psychedelic drugs are not involved. (This post isn't pro-acid/shrooms/etc, it's anti-Carol.)
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...but actually, when faced with a difficult problem, a nap sure as heck is a genius plan for solving almost any situation. I'm almost positive every problem in life can be solved by sleep, except perhaps narcolepsy. I like it. Mind you, the lion is the man here, I'm just a stripy sidekick with a big mouth. Seriously, I love me some napping. I'm gonna go bump your thread. That's how much I love napping.
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Heck, she barely even checks Facebook. Frankly, sir, you could do with an actual lion :-P
Hey, I found an actual tiger avatar instead of a leopard! Sweet. ...and it's almost as white as I am! Geeze, I look grumpy with this avatar, and my two new ones for my original handle.
Because you already established Fire as a tactic, so Firedove is actually acceptable, and not an alias. Also 'cause I doubt John would've wanted Tacticslioness.
How about SchemingLemur?What has been taken all ready? Only the first letter is capitalized. Pattern, people, pattern. Remember, TL is lawful good. There's Tacticslion, Strategytiger, Gambitbear, Leeroyjenkinsbat, Schemesnake, and...Tacticslioness, technically. ...I feel like I'm missing one more, less vocal individual, and I'm too lazy to search. I know I made a handful of fun suggestions a while back.
If you made a cunning planimal alias it couldn't hurt your chances, John. Leeroyjenkinsbat gets all his posts favorited by TL, and I have no idea what he's saying half the time. Most seem to be predators on the animal side, usually apex predators at that. (Can't think of much that hunts lions, tigers, bears, snakes, or bats.) Are you a seafaring man? I don't think we have an aquatic member. Blitzkriegshark has a nice ring to it, or Sheereffingnumberslocust if you want to buck the trend.
At my parent's, celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary! Woo! Congratulations to them: they're AWESOME! Yep, sounds occupied. 50 years is no small event!
Gambitbear, read the books instead. The sexual stuff is mentioned, but isn't as graphically in your face as the show. It is a little graphic, but not nearly like the show, maybe a paragraph here or there you can easily gloss over. TL...um...I don't know what to say about that story, except sorry for your family's loss Tactics was arguably the best game Square ever made, and yet every single sequel to it was a great big steaming pile of donkey droppings. I almost said horse, but no, it's not even horse, it's donkey. It wishes it was horse dung. Horse waste would be an improvement to the sequels.
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I'm playing book 2 of Hell's Rebels at the moment and our party (all designed around the "this is an espionage-y game" suggestions in the player's guide) are: Ratfolk sacred slayer inquisitor of Milani (me)
All level 6 at the moment. The Vigilante is struggling with the game because, although it feels as if Vigilante is the ideal character for the plot, there seem to be some huge flaws in the class and how it fits in with the rest of the party. Specifically, we can't figure out how to make the dual identity thing work. Having a different identity seems irrelevant if you are always hanging around with the rest of the party unless we also learn super disguise skills (which negated his big thing), and he seems to have the worst luck when it comes to being in the wrog persona for what we are doing at any given time. He's our friend, we want the game to be fun, so has anyone got any advice from experience about how to make a vigilante work as part of a party? Not neccesarily asking for build advice so much as equipment, tactics, tricks and so on that the other two PCs can do to support him.
I may be being dumb by relying on what HeroLab tells me here, but I can’t find an errata to confirm this one. Can a Sacred Fist, who hasn’t (and can’t, before anyone suggests it) multiclass monk, and has no flurry-related feats use their sacred flurry with any weapon other than unarmed? I’m specifically looking at shuriken, after running into one too many monsters that damage you when you hit them :(.
I'm trying to biuild what I think of as a fairly classic fantasy trope character, and having problems seeing what class I am looking for. (With the caveat that I am not that good at looking at the higher level builds, so some of the problems may be sorted later on, and I haven't realised it.) So, elf, lightly armoured and fast moving. Good at sneaking through the undergrowth and popping out to shoot people, then disappearing again. Good in natural surroundings, less comfortable around cities. In previous games I've played this as ranger, 3.5 scout, Inquisitor and cleric. Version 1 is a ranger, but the feats default to crossbow and TWF, and given that the volley property doesn't work well with the size of most battlemats, it feels like longbows are really sub-par. Version 2 is a rogue, which works a bit better, but suffers from the volley issue. She looks OK with a shortbow, but that's not quite the flavour I am after. On the plus side you get all the skills and then some more. Version 3 is a fighter, who can sort the dreaded volley issue, eventually, but has has lots of class abilities related to heavy armour, which run counter to the the swift & sneaky concept.
Divine Ward, Protection cleric domain ability says
OK, so if I am level 1 and my ally takes 3 damage, knocking him over, can I redirect 2 of that damage to me and he only takes 1, or do I stand there helpless because the whole hit is more than twice my level?
The alignment restrictions for clerics of Gorum seem weird to me. CN or CE only. Yes, he's the god of War and about smashing things, but there's also bits in his anathema about not being underhand and not killing prisoners out of hand. That comes across as more CG than CE (and there's information in the PF1 Planar Handbook that supports thatlore) but I'd prefer seeing all three alignments as options.
I played a game at he weekend where I was on slow track and the party only gained one Fame. The ref put 0.5 on my sheet, but neither of us was sure if that was correct - should it have rounded down to 0? The Season 9 guide says: Similarly, a Pathfinder using the slow advancement track may only earn a maximum of 1 Prestige Point for completing both mission objectives: 1/2 for completing the primary mission objective and 1/2 for completing the secondary mission objective. However, given there is no mechanic for spending 1/2 pp I am not sure how to interpret that.
I have a concept for a 'replacement' character in a campaign, but I am not sure how to make it work. The original character is a scholarly caster type with lots of knowledge skills. They die tragically at around Level 5-6. The second character is someone haunted by the ghost of the first character, which gives them a reason for joining the party. This new person has knowledge skills, which are, or can be fluffed as, the ghost's knowledge, but is also somewhat combat capable. I started by looking at Spiritualist, but the phantom seems to be a combat beast, with no option for making a skill monkey variant. My second thought was a haunted oracle, maybe with a bard dip to get knowledge skills. Anyone else have any ideas?
I'd like some general advice here from anyone who has been in a similar situation, and has better ref-fu than I do. I am running Skull and Shackles; currently the party are at level 11 and one of them has taken leadership as feat. I am not totally against the concept of leadership per se, and in the context of the campaign him having his own group of loyal pirates fits just fine. However, in one recent encounter he picked up a large magic weapon from a cyclops and wants to hire a large cohort to use it. I am not sure if a large creature as an ally would be overpowered. The large template adds +1 to the CR of a monster, but my gut feeling is that if they are on the same side as the PCs then reach etc. may be worth more than 1 level. There aren't any Large PC races (NB: we don't own or use 3rd party material) that I am aware of so I don't have anything to look at as an example of character level adjustment for size. Does anyone have any experience of large PCs or cohorts and how they affect things?
I want to check this as I am relying on Hero Lab a bit for the nuances in the wording of some traits. My concept is a kitsune swashbuckler who was adopted by Varisians and trained as a Kapenia dancer. Varisian tattoo is regional and fits, so that's trait 1 I want some way to make (perform) dance a class skill. Adopted is the obvious way to go, but then what? I can see four human traits that grant perform skills: Aspiring bard (Taldan)
According to HL, the first three are legal with adopted, the fourth (which I want to take) isn't. Looking at the actual sourcebook, Humans of Golarion says "These traits can be taken by anyone of the listed ethnicity", and Inner Sea Races says "Your character must be of the specified ethnicity". So, what's the logic (if any) here, and is Tatooed Focus legal or not?
Hi - I have been reading this up in the forums and am still a bit confused. I want to add spells to my familiar. If I understand correctly, I need to: 1. Pay an NPC witch for the favour (but how much - the same as a wizard lvl squared x 10 x 1.5 or less because there is no transcription cost).
Hi - I need some advice. Currently running Fever Sea. In order to explain why there are merchant ships south of the Shackles I showed my party the map of the world's oceans and explained that there were trade routes from Tian round the south of Garund, and fledgling trade routes to Arcadia. My party now want to go to Tian. Or Arcadia. Or the great gnome empire of South Garund... In fact anywhere but the Shackles. They visited Tidewater Rock and decided it was boring, and they couldn't see the point of taking it. So, any suggestion how to keep the party interested in the AP rather than the bits of the world that aren't written yet? They like being pirates, but there doesn't seem to be anything keeping them near the Shackles, rather than pirating their way around the world.
We've recently moved from 3.5 to Pathfinder, and my only regret is that some of my favourite utility items from the 3.5 item compendium don't seem to have an equivalent in PF. So, does anyone have an equivalent for either a belt of hidden pouches (lots of mini bags of holding) or a Ring of arming (swaps between armour and ordinary clothing as a move action). Alternatively how would they be costed, as PF items seem to be more expensive than 3.5 ones in most cases. |
