Fandoms.
Hmmm,...
Yeah, I never reeally had any encounters with 'Fandoms' until VERY recently. And those were observations. I was never involved.
Been to a FEW cons, played with randos both good and 'iffy' (being polite) But generally had a good time.
LATELY though? Sheesh, yeah, I have to agree.
To paraphrase 'Men in Black'
"A GAMER is intelligent and reasonable. A GROUP of gamers are not!"
I do not know what it is about the anonymity of the interwebs that seems to make people think they can just be unbridled jerks. (?!?)
I mean,... WHY?!?!? O_o
Thank goodness for normal, reasonable nerds like yourselves! :)
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Alessia
Tentacle 5 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (8) + 22 = 30 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Tentacle 6 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Tentacle 7 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Tentacle 8 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
I mean … wow.
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I mean … wow.Alessia
Tentacle 5 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (8) + 22 = 30 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Tentacle 6 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Tentacle 7 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Tentacle 8 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
You said you needed a damage sponge. I built a damage sponge.
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You said you needed a damage sponge. I built a damage sponge.I mean … wow.Alessia
Tentacle 5 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (8) + 22 = 30 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Tentacle 6 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Tentacle 7 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Tentacle 8 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Yes. Yes you did.
Yes. Yes you did.You said you needed a damage sponge. I built a damage sponge.I mean … wow.Alessia
Tentacle 5 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (8) + 22 = 30 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Tentacle 6 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Tentacle 7 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Tentacle 8 : 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
YES.
That. O_oI mean, don't get me wrong. Justin appreciates ALL his companions and friends.
BUT I think he just found his new favorite meat shield to stand behind.
Just sayin',... ;)
Speaking of which, our favorite damage sponge is up. Give that MechaOctopus a good whacking, Alessia!
If you are interested you can send me a PM. Just please let me know you did! I don’t get alerts I have them. Or you can post up here.I might be interested, just let me have a little time to read what's been posted so far.
Currently reading, looks intriguing. Plus, with the current players, it would definitely feel a bit like "getting the band back together."
Currently reading, looks intriguing. Plus, with the current players, it would definitely feel a bit like "getting the band back together."If you are interested you can send me a PM. Just please let me know you did! I don’t get alerts I have them. Or you can post up here.I might be interested, just let me have a little time to read what's been posted so far.
I think you will appreciate the GG Alanson battle, being a music guy.
Cook those critters Rags! We need to get rid of them before we can move forward...
and anything that survives the fire gets a holy blast.
Holy Moley!
I knew I was trying to make Justin a fire(balling) bad-arse, buuuuut,...
I just realized, (FINALLY, I admit I'm slow sometimes), if you add up all of Justin's Fireball dmg bonuses, (from feats, spell specialization, Rod, et al, He just essentially cast a 25 dice fireball. O_o
Legally. I think.
And, that's not the MAX max he could get, if he used his other magic ring(s) to add extra dice on top of that. O_O
And THAT ladies and gentlemen, is why everyone cries that wizzies are overpowered. Even though he can only do that a max of maybe 3 times per day.
And if you took away all of his magic gizmos, it would 'only' be in the mid-teens with feats/abilities alone. And still only 2-3 times a day.
Still, for those 2-3 times,... FEAR MY POWAH! ;P
Holy Moley!
I knew I was trying to make Justin a fire(balling) bad-arse, buuuuut,...
I just realized, (FINALLY, I admit I'm slow sometimes), if you add up all of Justin's Fireball dmg bonuses, (from feats, spell specialization, Rod, et al, He just essentially cast a 25 dice fireball. O_o
Legally. I think.
And, that's not the MAX max he could get, if he used his other magic ring(s) to add extra dice on top of that. O_O
And THAT ladies and gentlemen, is why everyone cries that wizzies are overpowered. Even though he can only do that a max of maybe 3 times per day.
And if you took away all of his magic gizmos, it would 'only' be in the mid-teens with feats/abilities alone. And still only 2-3 times a day.Still, for those 2-3 times,... FEAR MY POWAH! ;P
NICE!
Back in the 3.5 Epic Level days you could get those Fireball damage totals even higher! I know Pathfinder had their own version of Epic but I never played it all that much.
I don't see myself running anything at that power level again, unless it's in retirement. Used to take forever to prep those games. I think the highest my PCs got were level 37 or 38. Did some pretty cool stuff, the old Bloodstone Lands Modules converted to 3.5.
Ah yes the levels where 1 round of combat takes an hour and requires a calculator.
If Alessia is within range of the fireball, it's only going to take out about 2/3 of her hit points, so no worries.
Nah, the tunnel is long enough to basically contain the blast. Maybe there’s a rule saying otherwise, but F it. There’s more fun to explore in the Tomb of Squickiness!
To be honest, THIS is the longest /Highest lvl toon I have ever played (I think, I had a PbP Druid that lasted til about these levels) So I'm not really familiar with the possibilities of high lvl insanity/universe-warping. So when I realized that, my eyes got very big. :)
And technically Justin is a mix-mashing of 3.x, PF Playtest, and PF1, so 'legal' is a point of view. ;)
Still fun though. :D
(Powerful enough to give him the ego, runs out early enough to give him the reality check.) ;P
The NWN video games (using the 3.0 ruleset) allowed you to pick 20+ lvl abilities, and basically make what I called the nuclear wastland spell.
I think it was a 20dice fireball, + 20dice acidball, and maybe other bonus dmg depending on your feats? O_o
THAT was fun one to drop running around in the shareware worlds people had made for that game.
I'm kinda scared to try and get Justin's fireball dmg any higher. (Although I think with the right feats it MIGHT be possible?) His runaway ego is already making it difficult enough to write him without making him self destruct! ;)
Meh. I'm safe. Patrick seems to exceed at finding and reminding me of a wizard's weak points. ;P
Nah, the tunnel is long enough to basically contain the blast. Maybe there’s a rule saying otherwise, but F it. There’s more fun to explore in the Tomb of Squickiness!
Sounds like an official ruling to me! :)
WHY do I now want to see 'The Tomb of Squickiness' as a published 1-shot/side quest adventure???
That title just sounds like it deserves to be on an adventure cover. ;)
I'm kinda scared to try and get Justin's fireball dmg any higher. (Although I think with the right feats it MIGHT be possible?) His runaway ego is already making it difficult enough to write him without making him self destruct! ;)
I mean, you could always spec into this...
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I'm kinda scared to try and get Justin's fireball dmg any higher. (Although I think with the right feats it MIGHT be possible?) His runaway ego is already making it difficult enough to write him without making him self destruct! ;)I mean, you could always spec into this...
Oh man, I had a PC with that Fell Animate spell, it was pretty cool. I had the PCs world hop in the Age of Worms game I ran because I expanded the scope and they ended up in Dark Sun. The Wizard PC was Lawful Evil so he took advantage of being a Defiler for a day and he dropped a Fell Fireball on Pirates chasing the group on the Silt Sea. Half the crew died, then rose and attacked the other half of the crew, the PC boated away as I described the horror of that scene, it as pretty damn neat. Sometimes I miss running D&D but I just don't have the bandwith to run it these days.
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I'm kinda scared to try and get Justin's fireball dmg any higher. (Although I think with the right feats it MIGHT be possible?) His runaway ego is already making it difficult enough to write him without making him self destruct! ;)I mean, you could always spec into this...
Oh my,...
"I am both frightened, and 'excited'.' ;P(To paraphrase the 1st Wonder Woman movie)
:)
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"Well, to be fair, I HAVE seen molds and fungi that are capable of walking and fairly capable of violence."
All this talk of molds and fungi, and this is all I can think of.
Nice.
(A Ghost Busters reference is always a winner.)
Although I was thinking of 'Shriekers' & 'Myconids' myself. ;)
But a quick google search turned up Violet Fungus, the Yellow Zombie-fungus, and a few others as well.
So. Many. Fungi. O_o
"Well, to be fair, I HAVE seen molds and fungi that are capable of walking and fairly capable of violence."All this talk of molds and fungi, and this is all I can think of.
I didn’t even have to click the link lol
Oh man, I had a PC with that Fell Animate spell, it was pretty cool. I had the PCs world hop in the Age of Worms game I ran because I expanded the scope and they ended up in Dark Sun. The Wizard PC was Lawful Evil so he took advantage of being a Defiler for a day and he dropped a Fell Fireball on Pirates chasing the group on the Silt Sea. Half the crew died, then rose and attacked the other half of the crew, the PC boated away as I described the horror of that scene, it as pretty damn neat. Sometimes I miss running D&D but I just don't have the bandwith to run it these days.
I never begrudge people their builds. Honestly, it’s great you guys can be Big Damn Heroes(tm). I like epic brawls, and I enjoy describing the effects of these things (like the fireball). It makes for entertaining gaming.
Max/Celestial Healer and I are in a high-level (book 6) AP campaign run by Janet/Treppa (the Baba Yaga one), and we both have Baleful polymorph. We get up to a lot of shenanigans, and we own a menagerie of penguins now (which is our go to polymorph shape)
Nice.
(A Ghost Busters reference is always a winner.)Although I was thinking of 'Shriekers' & 'Myconids' myself. ;)
But a quick google search turned up Violet Fungus, the Yellow Zombie-fungus, and a few others as well.
So. Many. Fungi. O_o
Hmmmmmmmm
HmmmmmmmmNice.
(A Ghost Busters reference is always a winner.)Although I was thinking of 'Shriekers' & 'Myconids' myself. ;)
But a quick google search turned up Violet Fungus, the Yellow Zombie-fungus, and a few others as well.
So. Many. Fungi. O_o
<Wizard beats his head against the wall>
MUST.STOP.
GIVING.
GM.
IDEAS!
;P
I never begrudge people their builds. Honestly, it’s great you guys can be Big Damn Heroes(tm). I like epic brawls, and I enjoy describing the effects of these things (like the fireball). It makes for entertaining gaming.
Yes. Yes your descriptions DO make for entertaining gaming. :)
Max/Celestial Healer and I are in a high-level (book 6) AP campaign run by Janet/Treppa (the Baba Yaga one), and we both have Baleful polymorph. We get up to a lot of shenanigans, and we own a menagerie of penguins now (which is our go to polymorph shape)
THAT is awesome! (I have that AP series, so I am familiar with it.)
I have always wanted to do the high-lvl shenanigans where you take 'Polymorph any object', and carry around a small mouse skeleton or something.
Read a thread that said unless/until you invest a skelly with necromantic energy, it is just an 'object'.
>Throw mouse skelly on ground
>Polymorph any Object it into a Wyvern or Dragon Skelly.
>Cast Animate Object on now LARGE skelly
>MAke it attack your enemies, Who think they are facing an actual animated skeleton (the undead kind) and likely waste Clerical turn undeads and Power-bombs on it
>Enjoy your shenanigans. ;)
(I'm pretty certain in the last fight of the D&D movie, the Red Wizard just cast Animate Object on the Dragon Statue) ;)
Alessia stalks down the hallway. What could go wrong?
Ability-draining undead blunders into a pit trap in a tomb. Are we playing Morrowind?
Alessia stalks down the hallway. What could go wrong?Ability-draining undead blunders into a pit trap in a tomb. Are we playing Morrowind?
It’s funny, but I don’t play video games. I’m not wired for them. The last time I spent serious time on video games they cost a quarter a play. Yet, somehow my plots always remind folks of iconic video games. *shrug* I guess we all read the same books, lol
ROFL,
I love video games, I just stink at them generally. DOn't have the time or patience to ever finish them, no matter how much I like them, or how good they are. Even if I am actually decent at that game, just can't seem to manage it. (ALthough I admit, I DO still try!) ;P
I swear, WAY back in the 'Waybackmachine', (FIrst went to college, 1984)
We used to joke that the big movie companies had our friend under surveillance. Or were reading his mind.
Either way, they were totally stealing his ideas!
For one D&D game, he created a pair of twins essentially the same character, but ONE was human by day, the other was human by night. When they were not human, they were a hawk.
The next thing we know? The movie Ladyhawke comes out.
Another game, he created a home brew artifact that could keep a person alive, even if they were in the negatives HP. It was a stone called the 'DragonHeart'.
The next MONTH, Dragonheart the movie came out!
O_o
Yeah, it really makes a case for ‘tropes’. I mean, pretty much a video game is a decision tree dressed in tropes. Same with movies, except the decision tree is pre-determined. I think One reason I like TTRPGs is the fact that the players have such agency and can literally reshape the story by their actions. Once video games get to that level of bandwidth I might think of playing
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To me it just proves that they should be hiring actual gamers to write the fun movies. ;)
Case in point? I don't know if you like their podcasts or not, (I myself cannot STAND to watch OTHER people play D&D or video games for hours. I don't get the appeal)
BUT, the anime adaptation of Critical Role's first D&D game/season "Vox Machina" has been VERY enjoyable in my opinion. I am looking forward to Season 3 of the show.
Proof that they should let gamers write adventure movies. ;P
Heck, LAdyhawke, COnan the Barbarian, ALL the cheesy 80's fantasy movies, we adapted elements of ALL of them into our games!
:D
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It’s funny, but I don’t play video games. I’m not wired for them. The last time I spent serious time on video games they cost a quarter a play. Yet, somehow my plots always remind folks of iconic video games. *shrug* I guess we all read the same books, lolAlessia stalks down the hallway. What could go wrong?Ability-draining undead blunders into a pit trap in a tomb. Are we playing Morrowind?
I was mostly making a joke about Morrowind's (actually every Elder Scrolls game's) not-so-great enemy AI.
Honestly, I don't play much (maybe an hour or two a week), and it's just the same handful of titles over and over. To quote Satchel from Get Fuzzy, "I like living in the past, it's so predictable."
Can you attach a grappling hook to a rope of climbing and have the rope still work as described? Asking for a friend.
To me it just proves that they should be hiring actual gamers to write the fun movies. ;)
Case in point? I don't know if you like their podcasts or not, (I myself cannot STAND to watch OTHER people play D&D or video games for hours. I don't get the appeal)
BUT, the anime adaptation of Critical Role's first D&D game/season "Vox Machina" has been VERY enjoyable in my opinion. I am looking forward to Season 3 of the show.
Proof that they should let gamers write adventure movies. ;P
Heck, LAdyhawke, COnan the Barbarian, ALL the cheesy 80's fantasy movies, we adapted elements of ALL of them into our games!
:D
Yes!! If you watch the YouTube video of how the "^#$@@# $#!+ Up!!" battle from season 2 translated from live game to screen it's the kind of moment every game lives for, and it resonates because of it.
Oh absolutely. I’m with you Rags, I’m not a fan of podcast or twitch gaming watching. I did Glass Cannon for a while whilst working long overnight shifts, but it doesn’t work with my schedule right now. The animated vox machina was very good.
I don’t feel bad about cribbing from sources large and small. I once did when I was younger- feeling like somehow it was cheating. Then after reading Joseph Campbell and taking a good look at the media I loved I realized that cannibalism is the standard in art.
Can you attach a grappling hook to a rope of climbing and have the rope still work as described? Asking for a friend.
I read the description and it looks as if the magic makes its own magical grappling hook, yes?
Da Rulez
A rope of climbing can be commanded to knot or unknot itself. This causes large knots to appear at 1-foot intervals along the rope. Knotting shortens the rope to a 50-foot length until the knots are untied, but lowers the DC of Climb checks while using it by 10. A creature must hold one end of the rope when its magic is invoked.
Can you attach a grappling hook to a rope of climbing and have the rope still work as described? Asking for a friend.I read the description and it looks as if the magic makes its own magical grappling hook, yes?
Da Rulez ** spoiler omitted **
If that's the way you want to play it, we can do that--I was reading it as the rope being able to secure itself to anything that a normal rope could be secured (i.e. tied) to.
Yeah that is sort of vague. Let's say it magically stiffens and acts as if secured.
for Devils advocate sake, let us also say, it does not say that the rope cannot carry anything up with it if tied to it? ;P
A grappling hook, tied to one end of a rope of climbing, and then hooked onto something, would still be secure IF (for whatever reason) you or your opponent hit the area with a Dispel magic, or ANti magic shell effect. :)
Just sayin',... getting hit with either a dispel or anti magic shell, while halfway up the rope, would suck big time if it was only attached via magic. :)
I'm not going to complain either way. It IS kinda vague. (which sometimes makes for the most fun interpretations/interactions!) ;)
Oh absolutely. I’m with you Rags, I’m not a fan of podcast or twitch gaming watching. I did Glass Cannon for a while whilst working long overnight shifts, but it doesn’t work with my schedule right now. The animated vox machina was very good.
I don’t feel bad about cribbing from sources large and small. I once did when I was younger- feeling like somehow it was cheating. Then after reading Joseph Campbell and taking a good look at the media I loved I realized that cannibalism is the standard in art.
Oh we unapologetically cribbed the heck out of EVERYthing. And anything.
No 'Regerts', No shame. ;PWe had the 3 bladed sword from 'Sword and the Sorceress" (Surprisingly, not that much more than average dmg), the Holy Hand Grenade, and everything in between that we could squeeze in.
Good times! :)
I was mostly making a joke about Morrowind's (actually every Elder Scrolls game's) not-so-great enemy AI.
Honestly, I don't play much (maybe an hour or two a week), and it's just the same handful of titles over and over. To quote Satchel from Get Fuzzy, "I like living in the past, it's so predictable."
Heh, I've tried Morrowind. I stink at it.
WAY too easy to get in WAY over your head with things you cannot possibly hurt at your lvl. ;PIt was fun, for a little bit. But when the low-lvl cave-worms can munch your @$$, and the best way to 'lvl up' your athletics skill is to run in circles while pressing the spacebar/jump button, It's time for the Wizzie to find a new game. ;P
And I DO like the past, Not only predictable,. but they liked me back then! :)
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Yes!! If you watch the YouTube video of how the "^#$@@# $#!+ Up!!" battle from season 2 translated from live game to screen it's the kind of moment every game lives for, and it resonates because of it.
YES!!! THAT was a great scene!
I do like how you can tell when they rolled really good, OR got a Nat 1 on an attack roll in the animated version. O_o
They are doing a good job. I am enjoying it. :)
SInce I never watch(ed) any of the live play episodes, I had not seen that video. Very cool.
Yet MORE proof, GAMERS MAKE THE BEST WRITERS/STORYTELLERS! :)
Oh absolutely. I’m with you Rags, I’m not a fan of podcast or twitch gaming watching. I did Glass Cannon for a while whilst working long overnight shifts, but it doesn’t work with my schedule right now. The animated vox machina was very good.
I don’t feel bad about cribbing from sources large and small. I once did when I was younger- feeling like somehow it was cheating. Then after reading Joseph Campbell and taking a good look at the media I loved I realized that cannibalism is the standard in art.
Oh we unapologetically cribbed the heck out of EVERYthing. And anything.
No 'Regerts', No shame. ;PWe had the 3 bladed sword from 'Sword and the Sorceress" (Surprisingly, not that much more than average dmg), the Holy Hand Grenade, and everything in between that we could squeeze in.
Good times! :)
I remember my father read Psychology Today and he gave me >This Article< when it came out. I figure if J Eric Holmes was good with it, then cribbing isn't so bad. It was a really interesting read about D&D from a psychiatry angle. It helped my dad understand what I was interested in, at least.
I remember my father read Psychology Today and he gave me >This Article< when it came out. I figure if J Eric Holmes was good with it, then cribbing isn't so bad. It was a really interesting read about D&D from a psychiatry angle. It helped my dad understand what I was interested in, at least.
Wow. 1980. (I was entering High School.)
I wish it was a better scan, ;P but it was an interesting and fun read.And a bunch of doctors and nurses, sitting around behaving about the same as a bunch of adolescent kids playing the same game. And having fun.
Seems like maybe we haven't changed much in all this time, after all? ;)
WHat was that someone told a stuffy, (or was it Prissy) English lady who was expounding upon how superior English manners were to all other countries, especially America?
"Just because you've made it more complicated, doesn't mean yours is better."
:D
Thanks for sharing that!
I remember my father read Psychology Today and he gave me >This Article< when it came out. I figure if J Eric Holmes was good with it, then cribbing isn't so bad. It was a really interesting read about D&D from a psychiatry angle. It helped my dad understand what I was interested in, at least.
Wow. 1980. (I was entering High School.)
I wish it was a better scan, ;P but it was an interesting and fun read.And a bunch of doctors and nurses, sitting around behaving about the same as a bunch of adolescent kids playing the same game. And having fun.
Seems like maybe we haven't changed much in all this time, after all? ;)WHat was that someone told a stuffy, (or was it Prissy) English lady who was expounding upon how superior English manners were to all other countries, especially America?
"Just because you've made it more complicated, doesn't mean yours is better."
:D
Thanks for sharing that!
My scan is old, but you can find it around the Internet now.
So, something has crept up on me. I should’ve mentioned it before, but it’s kind of been out of my mind. I’m going on vacation next week, and I’m not sure how much connectivity I will have since I’ll be out of the country. If I get a chance to update, I will but if not, updates will have to wait until the Monday after next.
Thinking about some game things, and I felt like this
Thinking about some game things, and I felt like this
NOT saying that's how I've EVER thought of you,.... ;)
But if you were to ask me about GM's in general,... Yep. That'd be it. ;P