i have not heard of the mattress at night thing either.Yes there are a whole bagful of customs here that no one would think off.
I should be more bothered by that sort of thing, since I am sensitive so I can actually sense the presence of otherworldly things. I've never seen them,thank goodness.
Basically it means if they want to bother me, they can. Unlike some lucky sobs who won't get to sense them at all.
And I don't have faith so I can't exactly banish them or tell them to skoot either.
BTW I am NOT American.
Chinese stuff, I think. :)
EDIT: D-dang it, Napier!
*gets dressed*
XD
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Just a Mort: Every culture comes with superstitons. Western culture has "no keys on the table", "don't walk under ladders", " black cats are unlucky", "breaking a mirror is seven years of bad luck", and so on. Some seem pretty sensible, others are just weird. As I understand it, chinese culture has a profusion of these. Agreed that you are supposed to use them as things to learn and then decide if they are important to you. A shared identity is important, but having such things restrain you seems foolish. Good on you for keeping your promises.
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We have the mirrors and bad luck bit. I wonder if people created the superstition to prevent mirrors from being broken as getting cut by the shards hurts.
Don't walk under ladders is sensible. You never know of the ladder is going to give way when someone too heavy goes up it. Or the guy on top drops something, or is in the middle of painting the celling and some of it drips on you.
Never heard of the key thing myself. Our keys are always on the table.
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We have the mirrors and bad luck bit. I wonder if people created the superstition to prevent mirrors from being broken as getting cut by the shards hurts.
Don't walk under ladders is sensible. You never know of the ladder is going to give way when someone too heavy goes up it. Or the guy on top drops something, or is in the middle of painting the celling and some of it drips on you.
Never heard of the key thing myself. Our keys are always on the table.
Never heard about keys.
The mirror one might be a combination of multiple reasons: for a long time, a mirror was an extremely expensive accessory and in completely unrelated matter, a reflection was considered a manifestation or representation of one's soul (many supernatural beings don't have soul and thus don't have reflection), fracturing a mirror could be interpreted as fracturing a soul...
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Black cats are unlucky might be specifically European thing developed when our ancestors dumbly associated cats with witchcraft and devil.
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I always thought black cats were lucky...
Which is just as well, since I like black cats.
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Tacticslion has 178,085 liked post as of today.
Assuming he will read these post please make that 178,087.
I’m about to make a large city statblock based on that number.
Tacticsliontown
Corruption -5, Crime -5, Economy +8, Law +5; Lore +5,
Society +10
Qualities academic, prosperous, rumormongering citizens,
tourist attraction, festive pies
Danger 0
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Tacticslion has 178,085 liked post as of today.
Assuming he will read these post please make that 178,087.
I’m about to make a large city statblock based on that number.
Tacticsliontown
Corruption -5, Crime -5, Economy +8, Law +5; Lore +5,
Society +10Qualities academic, prosperous, rumormongering citizens,
tourist attraction, festive piesDanger 0
<3
<3<3
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Well, it juuuussssst so happens...
... I have...
... a potential notable population list...
... RIGHT HERE~!
Booyah, FaWtLers!! ... in a good way!
Original Post with a question for everyone to answer!
YAY!
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And now the results so far of EverFaWtL:
01) aatea: paladin (cloistered cleric archetype); hellknight PrC
02) baron arem heshvaun: _______________________
03) CH: ________________________
04) Crookshanks: ___________________
05) CY: medium (brute vigilante archetype); mammoth rider PrC
06) doctor_wu: investigator (tetori monk archetype; for better hugging); ??? <no PrC suggested>
07) Drejk: psychic OR int-based sorcerer (archeologist bard archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>
08) Freehold: martial artist monk/lust wizard (solacer bard archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>
09) Game Hamster: cleric (archetype granting smite evil or inquisition??); ??? <no PrC suggested>
10) gran: wizard (warrior of the holy light paladin archetype); PrCs (I'unno, maybe being "that guy" - i.e. me - who wants a non-evil assassin?)
11) Icy: ______________
12) J4rh43d: empericist investigator (with blossoming light cleric archetype) OR blossoming light cleric (with empericist investigator archetype)... OR paladin (with blossoming light cleric archetype); sanguine angel OR alchemist/brewkeeper OR wizard/<any full casting PrC to fix stuff>
13) Jess Door: Paladin (archeologist bard archetype?); Loremaster [ALT/ADTL: just a cat]
14) John (Napier): Traveller d20 Grand Admiral [Imperial subrank “archetype”] OR Gunslinger (bounty hunter slayer archetype); duelist PrC
15) Kileanna: __________________
16) Kjeldorn: druid (archivist bard archetype); home brew paladin PrC OR brewkeeper PrC (lacking religious flavor)
17) Limey: fighter/rogue/mage (all with the musketeer archetype); toss up (duelist, eldritch knight, assassin [3.5] )
18) lisamarlene: in need of coffee PATHFINDER CHRONICLER, ALL ELSE MEANINGLESS (it’s close to being Indiana Jones! Squee!)
19) lynora: witch (crashing wave cleric archetype water bending); ??? <no PrC suggested> :)
20) Mort (Just a Mort): since I know for a fact that a certain Chinese kitty sometimes hangs out over here (but rarely posts anything!! >:I): wizard (urban ranger archetype); student of war PrC (oh: and/or assassin?)
21) NH: paladin of some sort, and definitely not the Core PrCs or the early archetypes thereof! (also, as of lisamarlene, is now given bonus levels in grumpy-pants! )
22) Orthos: wilder (unknown archetype that nabs Dark Knowledge from Heroes of Horror); wilder/dragonfire adept/<the PrC that combines those>
23) Scint: alchemist (archavist bard archetype; yay know-it-all mad science (so basically a female Bill Nye, which is now the coolest thing ever)); "soracle" theurge (sorcerer/oracle/theurge)
24) Sharoth: 20th level commoner (weakness: fear of house cats)
25) Sissyl: NO ARCHETYPES; optimized cleric/wizard/mystic theurge
26) Syrus: warpriest [Healing, Tactics domains] (unknown archetype of something for smite and/or marshal auras); Evangelist (with The Deity ;D)
27) Thomas Seitz (): Paladin, duh!; ??? <no PrC suggested>
28) Me!: psionic erudite (unifier tactician archetype) or erudite/wizard/cerebromancer
29) taig: ________________
30) TOZ: Oracle (Unbreakable Fighter archetype); Oracle/Holy Vindicator (sneaking suspicion that he may, just possibly, perhaps, have a type)
31) TS: fellow erudite psion with some “expanded knowledge” feat-focused archetype (OR a wizard with access to both wish spells, and the missing 9th level wizard spells); any PrC with +1 ML (and/or +1 CL) per level (“thou shalt not sacrifice…”)
32) The Vagrant Erudite: juju oracle (churomancer wizard archetype) (look, he just wants all the dead things; also to wear white); ??? <no PrC suggested>
33) Vanykrye: kensai magus (empericist investigator archetype); paladin/monk/<Iroran Paladin-monk-PrC>
34) Vidmaster: magus sorcerer (with the celeberty bard archetype) or bard (with the spell blade magus archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>
35) Wei Ji: bard (spirit guide oracle archetype); sorcerer (or bloodrager)/dragon disciple
... and anyone else that comes next!
Enjoy!
And now, some random stats I noticed:
- 6/35: unanswered
- 29/35: at least partially answered
- 16/35: fully answered
- 10/35: totally followed the all the rules!
rumormongering citizens, festive pies
Hey, did you hear about this one pie captain yesterday made? I heard it was an erotic pie, back in his bakery days...
>.>
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I was never actually an erotic baker, I was just offered the job.
Alas, landscaping paid better and with a pregnant wife I needed all the money we could get.
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Also is allowed to take natural spell despite not being a druid to cast with paws...In Tacticstown, all things are possible. It's kind of like Willy Wonka's factory, but with more (and larger) Oompa Loompas.
Or am I the only one who imagines it that way?
Wait wait wait wait wait.
Wait.
There are two towns, now?
(Either way, I'm all of the extra large Oompa Loompas. We're all in a trench coat.)
I was never actually an erotic baker, I was just offered the job.
Alas, landscaping paid better and with a pregnant wife I needed all the money we could get.
Dang it, man, I thought we were supposed to be rumormongering, not truth-telling, 'round here~!
(I once spent waaaayyyyy too much time there, contributed nothing.)
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(I once spent waaaayyyyy too much time there, contributed nothing.)
well, I like the element behind it...
What is this though?
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It's currently 30 degrees, or twenty degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday.
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It's currently 30 degrees, or twenty degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday.
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In Tacticsliontown I would be an Imperial Purebred Human, with the Grand Moff Archtype, and even more extra superfluous but you know it’s in there Imperial Advisor Prestidge Class.
You know, what Hellkight mothers tell their children to scare them into eating their vegetables.
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Et tu, Matt Lauer?
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It's currently 30 degrees, or twenty degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday.
True story, when the kids are grumpy I cheer them up by trying to give myself a high five but failing spectacularly at it.
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Et tu, Matt Lauer?
It's about goddamn time.
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I would like to run a dubious pawnbrokers in Tacticsliontown.
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But is Tacticsliontown action packed enough.
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Did anyone here watch Homeland? I just finished the first season, and I'm not sure if I want to continue. It wasn't bad, I just wasn't really drawn in like I had thought I would be. I guess I'm curious if it gets more absorbing.
I watched through the end of season three.
My feeling is that it was sort of like one of those trashy spy novels you pick up at an airport bookshop and then leave in your seat pocket afterwards.There are plot twists. There's a lot of drama. Most of it is excruciatingly far-fetched (the husband disagrees with me on that last point). But it's more interesting than 24, which I stopped in the middle of a season because I was bored.
I like intrigue and occasional violence, but the writing has to be solid.
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In Tacticsliontown I would be an Imperial Purebred Human, with the Grand Moff Archtype, and even more extra superfluous but you know it’s in there Imperial Advisor Prestidge Class.
You know, what Hellkight mothers tell their children to scare them into eating their vegetables.
I would be some kind of snow worshipping wife absconder.
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The name of the game when walking the dog today is "Stay in the sun"
It's cold in the shade.
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(I once spent waaaayyyyy too much time there, contributed nothing.)
well, I like the element behind it...
What is this though?
A really, really old fansite dedicated to things like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Tactics. Fanfiction. Fanart. From back when those were a thing (to me).
So... late 90s, early 00s?
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But is Tacticsliontown action packed enough.
Well, the danger is apparently 0, but between the academic, prosperous, rumormongering citizens, tourist attraction, festive pies, and, of course, currently brewing intrigue between a snow leopard and a shady pawnbroker, there's seemingly the possibility for Action! (even if it's not that dangerous) - so I'unno, maybe?
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The fact that an internal Skywalker/Solo family feud brought such ruin to the galaxy is an even greater horror. Daala and Fett had the right of it when they discussed certain courses of action concerning the Jedi and Sith in Revelation. Likewise, Gotab and Venku, in the same tome, about abstention from the Force.
Attachment was, at least in part, the problem.
Which brings us back to Anakin Skywalker. He asks us the question: How far can we go in trying to save the ones we love? Though it would be unfair not to call it what it truly was -- obsession.
I can both sympathize with *and* disdain his fall because it wasn't too many years ago that I was just as obsessed with "keeping" a significant other. It took me quite a long time to realize just how wrong I was in that, while it also enabled me to understand the parallels to his own motives. While his path wasn't terribly complicated, it was powerful at its root. I can relate.
TL;DR -- I agree with you, except in this: I don't like the prequels -- but I prefer them to TFA.
Disney bought the rights, and they dared not.
They dared nothing.
And so they did nothing.
At least George Lucas took the mythos to new places in the midst of his fumblings.
And thank you, *very much*, for expressing your thoughts on the EU! I thoroughly enjoyed reading what you had to say! :)
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But is Tacticsliontown action packed enough.Well, the danger is apparently 0, but between the academic, prosperous, rumormongering citizens, tourist attraction, festive pies, and, of course, currently brewing intrigue between a snow leopard and a shady pawnbroker, there's seemingly the possibility for Action! (even if it's not that dangerous) - so I'unno, maybe?
And never forget, Tac, that you can have the heartless foil-assassin Terrigan show up in *all* your games, as well as his alter ego, the "warpriest of smite-y auras evangelism".
Dibs on the Cid-slot!! :)
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John, isn't the Traveller system the one for the Warhammer RPGs, too? I may be recalling that incorrectly, but I made a character for a 40K game once -- and loved it. Origin, internal conflict, external conflict, personal secrets . . . . Everything was so *easy* to build, and made for *excellent* story.
Never got to play him, though . . . . :(
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Nope. Warhammer 40k uses its own system loosely based on earlier Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. They are quite significantly different from Traveller (in all the later's iterations as far as I can recall). Warhammer games (except for 3rd edition of FRP) use 1d100 rolls with attributes ranging between 20s and 40s, that can be increased to 60s-70s with the right choice of advancement.
Traveller changed mechanics between editions wildly.
Some editions used d20 rolls (though in signioficantly different way than d20 system - it was usually aiming to roll below the threshold created by adding attribute and skill), and some used 2d6 rolls (roll high, adding attribute and skill), and one two editions (3rd edition GURPS Traveller and 4th edition GURPS Interstellar Wars) were using GURPS (tests are rolling as low as you can on 3d6, comparing the result to value of your skill and attribute, the greater the difference the better).
EDIT: Of course there was also an edition of Traveller using d20 system somewhere in 2000s.
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The one I used in that instance *was* all d100/d%-based . . . . Regardless, it was a cool method, and a cooler character.
He was orphaned in an assault by "Church Inquisition" forces on an enclave devoted to a "heretical" doctrine. Adopted by a "bishop" and trained the *right way*. Finally confirmed in "the faith" and granted his first commission on a ship. The whole time, though, he remembered, and planned to reestablish the sect, in honor of his family.
I'm horribly unfamiliar with the lore, so my naming conventions are doubtless flawed. I hope it's close enough to right that you can fit it properly in the frame.
I do so enjoy playing cleric-types . . . . Wonder why? :D
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Well, Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy have all the party play Inquisitor's acolytes, who investigate heretics, mutants, warlocks, and daemonic manifestations across the galaxy in the first place.
Rogue Trader has characters who are given license to skirt the rather restrictive religious and cultural rules of the Empire to deal in trade, exploration, and stealing whatever fits their cargo bay acquisitions of resources, goods, and artifacts, including with/from xenos (aliens), though they still need to avoid stretching the limitations imposed by Inquisition too much.
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Rogue Trader!! That was it!!
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Maybe I had bad profs then, they were both first-timers. All I know is I stumbled my way thru C -- or was it C+? Or C++? I don't even know the difference -- and then would have completely failed Assembly if not for my partner who did 99% of the work. In an effort to explain how an algorithm can be written to count -- oh, and this was after the prof explained to me what 'algorithm' means (why not just say "program"?!) -- my Assembly prof asked me "How do you count things?"
To which I replied "I count them one by one...and then, um, they're counted."
It was that class that prompted me to switch to the electrical engineering program, which I was infinitely better at.
I was just the opposite! My degree is Computer Science & Engineering, but my least favorite classes were the hardware theory and design classes, so my work has been nearly all software. :). Thank goodness the world has both kinds of people! I leave hardware to you!