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Morning John. Good morning it seems mister pants-less.
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Whatever makes it easier for you to live your deviant life style john.
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Abominababy, a result of a failed experiment or a flawed cloning attempt.
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That is a strange thing. I like it.
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The General's WHOLE family is apparently going to be at Easter lunch.
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Hmm If its anything like My SO's extended family that I feel for ya brother.
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Oh no, they're much more annoying.
Caricatures of living in the Midwest, every last one of them.
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DOOM has no in-laws this is how DOOM prefers it.
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I'd say Happy Easter, but I'm not really feeling it this year.
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Well You know its also april fools and you have so many potential victims...
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I hate April Fools Day.
Practical jokes are for a~*&$**s.
Ymmv, obviously, and not everyone that plays a practical joke is an a+*#!#+, but they definitely attract a!&+&&~s.
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Proud of you cpt. Way to resist hydra.
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My SO and her sister like to prank each other. me and her have a truce because I know who would lose that battle. Awhile back she put a packet of red koolaid in the shower head right before her sister was about to take a shower. Right their and then I knew I wanted none of that.
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My brother and I once switched out the breakfast cereal sugar for garlic salt, expecting one of our other brothers to dump it on his cereal.
Unfortunately, my dad was the first person to have cereal that day, and then my brother ratted me out almost immediately "Unless someone comes forward NO ONE can play Nintendo!" "It was Captain Yesterday's idea! He made me help!"
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Its weird that your brother calls you Captain Yesterday.
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It may come as a surprise, but I've had a lot of nicknames over the years. :-)
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It may come as a surprise, but I've had a lot of nicknames over the years. :-)
~my hand goes to my forehead as I feel faint~ You?!? You have had nicknames? Next you are going to tell me that you use aliases!
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It may come as a surprise, but I've had a lot of nicknames over the years. :-)~my hand goes to my forehead as I feel faint~ You?!? You have had nicknames? Next you are going to tell me that you use aliases!
Now that's just ridiculous!
Abominababy, a result of a failed experiment or a flawed cloning attempt.
NICE concept! Now to save this to read later!
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Happy Easter!
(Also April Fool’s day, I guess?)
No foolin’!
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A couple of homebrew rule ideas I had.
1. What if Bravery applied to every Will save, not just for fear effects.
2. Since I have no intention of ever getting Unchained what spell list should I allow Magic Child Vigilantes use, since I'm the only person here that doesn't watch Anime or play Final Fantasy style games I'll let the experts decide.
1) YES; alt: give them a good will save (it’s pretty similar - only +1 more at the highest levels)
2) literally anything other than the unchained someone or list. Like, anything at all. Magical girl genre really varies from series-to-series, and the effects, and what they are like, differ, immensely. Someone or is more along the Pokémon lines, while others might be a bit more blastula, and others more Healy, and so on.
Point of clarification, “someone or” is supposed to be “summoner” - whooooops.
BLASTY* Magical Girl: Magus (maybe with gunslinger level 1 stuff and the quick clear deed, using gun - often two-handed - instead of normal Magus weapon, depending on BLASTY* magical girl variant)
HEAL-Y magical girl: oracle list (complete with auto-known cure wounds spells)
TECHNO-esque magical girl: alchemist list (reflavoring prepping vials as some other sort of expendable techno-esque thing, as appropriate
Digital/Spiritual-esque magical girl: psychic or wizard (this usually requires flavoring the transformation as going into either a digital or spirit world or something, with only normal-person abilities outside of that realm; PF, of course, can eschew this)
“Chosen One”/righteous paragon magical girl: Paladin (with a bit of fluff from cleric and/or Druid)
Digipokecard magical girl: summoner (seriously, the unchained is, like, the worst possible one they could use)
Inspirational magical girl: bard (often the leader - either intentionally or not - of others in a group who rallies them; may have a few self-buffs from other lists like bull’s strength or Transformation or ironskin or whatever; skald list may be a thing, but that might just be the bard list, as I’m less familiar with that class)
Spooky/Doom/Sad/etc.//Tactical/planning/analysis-and-planning magical girl: witch (although actually many of the other lists could accomplish this, I’m literally just mentioning witch because I’ve mentioned most of the others, and witch focuses on debuffs - and “I e made a weakness!” is akin to, “Ive found a weakness!” if you just use flavor)
Doki-Doki magical girl: mesmerist (make of this what you will - adorable, horrifying, or both)
You can make other kinds of magical child - it would probably have been more efficient to list the spell lists and describe the magical children you can make with that, but I did it this way and am on the phone so OH WELL! Also, it’s a vague survey of the spell-lists not a deep seated analysis - for example, a dokidoki mc could be made with bard, too, probably, but I didn’t think of it and aren’t in the mood for going through the whole thing with a comb and putting more thought than this for a while. Hope what’s here hells, though! Later!
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So, I finally reached my brother at home. I managed to get him to make me copies of his recent payments. I'll try to negotiate payments conditions.
He's clearly not well mentally, suspicious of surveilance to the point of writing on a board with an eraseable pen...
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On the other hand...there were lots of fluffy(and not so fluffy) critters spotted:
1)Pea Hen and Chicks
2)Caterpillars
3)Spiders
4)Snail
5)Monkeys
6)Beetles
7)Monitor Lizard (even walked right by us)
8)Skink
9)Tiger Barbs
10)Tilapia
11)Carp
12)Needlefish
13)Merry Widows
14)Fiddler Crab
15)Snake in the water(only saw head sticking out of the water)
16)Mudskippers
17)Archer Fish
18)Crocodiles
19)Egrets
20)Squirrel
21)Dragonflies
22)Butterflies
23)Terrapin (Caught sunbathing on a rock)Hi's actually pretty good at the spot the critter thing. Again I uh...dumped...wis.
And hey, we may be a city but we DO have wildlife around!
Hi also got to look at the Singapore port from car and Jurong Hill - when we load and unload cargo from ships - it's BIG business.A ship can come into our port - and get its business done - ready to set sail - in 24 hours.
For that - we have the support structures in place - Container storage (where container trucks can drive all the way up), up to 5-10 stories high.
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
What is a merry widow?
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Cyz and Phylotus were super crushed when we watched the last remaining dubbed ep.
I would too. It was dubbed.
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Why didn't I think of that!
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The General's WHOLE family is apparently going to be at Easter lunch.
When do we eat?!
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So I'm just getting more and more perplexed.
Yesterday was a Crimson Throne game, so I did a HUGE order from Kirin, because it's what I do. (My fridge is now suffering the consequences.)
I went through Amazon again.
Ahead of schedule, perfectly accurate order, friendly delivery guy, food piping hot on arrival. Again.
So if Amazon is doing this so well, why are other companies failing so hard?
(Shiro says it's because if you work for Amazon and you get a negative review, you fix it immediately or they fire you, so it's a Lawful Evil thing, but unless they're giving the drivers happy pills the drivers seem awfully happy to be working for an Evil Empire. Of course, they actually get a TIP auto-added to the delivery, so there's the idea that they're getting paid a decent wage for a short drive that may be factoring in. I don't know where my guy came from to start with yesterday, but he got almost $20 for driving 8 blocks. I wouldn't complain, either.)
EDIT: And if it wasn't considered rude, I'd totally start trying to build up a database of accents from my delivery people. They're all charming, but I've heard definitely Slavic, then something Middle Eastern, then something southeast Asian (most likely Indian), and a really beautiful African accent. I'd love to start getting countries of origin...
EDIT 2: And LM, before you start complaining that I only charged you $20 for that order, I'm going to point out that your entire family only managed to eat maybe 10% of the food, so I think it was an absolutely "fair share" amount.
I order a LOT of food...
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Relation: You haven't come out to visit Captain, you must be as busy as we are!
Me: Nope, I just don't like it out here.
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And hey, we may be a city but we DO have wildlife around!
What amuses me is how many city folk fail to understand that basic concept.
I was on my walk on Friday and there were a pair of does walking through someone's yard. Slightly unusual since it was broad daylight, but nothing I don't see every week or so on my trips.
And of course there were half a dozen people stopped, oohing and aahing and taking pictures and talking about how amazing it was...
...and I managed NOT to say, "You don't get out much, do you?"
We don't have a lot of variety in terms of easily-spotted wildlife:
(1) Raccoons
(2) Skunks
(3) Deer
(4) Opossums
(5) Crows
(6) Seagulls
(7) Mourning Doves
(8) Sparrows
During the Santa Rosa fires a great horned owl hung around for a couple of days, and the other night we had a pair of HUGE bats hunting around the crows' tree, but they're a rare sight.
We have bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, gopher snakes, and an AMAZING variety of rodentia, but they're amazingly good at hiding. I've never seen a bobcat, I've only seen coyotes and mountain lions in the Sierras, and in my whole life I only ran into one rattlesnake (and its mouth was full).
I'm sure that's an abbreviated list, but on a one-day hike you guys did pretty well!
EDIT: I was just re-responding to this because seeing the deer on Friday reminded me of Shiro's story of a woman in Michigan who stopped him on the street to point out a deer, couldn't figure out what kind of animal it was, and was trying to decide whether or not to dial 911 to report a bear loose in the neighborhood. Pretty scary stuff!
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Impus Major, playing Minecraft: I feel like a good European settler. I've come to a new land and I'm killing all the natives to take their gold!
Welcome to the Nether!
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I'm hiding in a forgotten bedroom.
I don't mind socializing, when they're people i get along with.
Otherwise, I don't have much patience for the charade.
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Reason #384 we don't Bother with April Fools
NobodysWife: Happy Easter, Impus Major! I got you an Easter beer.
Impus Major, not even batting an eye: Oh, OK. Thanks. But no thanks, you can have it.
NobodysWife: It was supposed to be an April Fools!
Impus Major: Easter: Promoting alcoholism for over 2000 years...
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Friday night, the bus I was taking home nearly hit a deer.
Oh Deer.
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Tequila:
1) Prepared casting *is* an option. It's just a drawback you can take. All it does is require you to specify how many spell points you dedicate to a given sphere for the day. If the warpriest build I mentioned had taken Prepared Casting, it would have worked out something like this:
Total Spell Points per Day: 11 (-ish)
Spheres (leaving out the talents taken in each, since it's irrelevant): 4
* Destruction
* Alteration
* Protection
* Enhancement
I could divvy up those 11 SP something like this:
Destruction - 2
Alteration - 3
Protection - 3
Enhancement - 3
Meaning I could spend an Enhancement-dedicated SP to produce *any* Enhancement sphere effect permitted by the base sphere ability and the talents taken in that sphere. And so on with the other spheres.
The Prepared Casting drawback is one of those that modifies the number of total spell points you have available for the day, so that "11 SP" quote may be a bit lower than *actual*. I usually abstain from taking that drawback with my characters because it has the potential to leave you hanging in a given situation -- I like being able to go "big gun" with my magic at need. Prepped casting is not something I like.
But it *is* a thing you can do.
2) When I mentioned PF at-wills, I was referring to the fact that a light spell only, ever, illuminates as a torch. Sure, you get duration and caster-level resistance to dispelling effects, but the light level and radius never change. Jolt/acid splash/ray of frost? Always a 1d3.
SoP is a bit different than that. Light sphere glows grow in area of effect as your level increases; spending a spell point can boost the light level produced. The Destruction sphere essentially gives you a Close-range magical bludgeoning damage eldritch blast (a la the 3.x warlock) just with the base sphere ability. Yeah -- scales from 1d6 to 10d6 damage, by CL, just by taking the base sphere. Spend a spell point with a one-sphere/talent dip in Destruction? That damage becomes 1d6/CL (minimum 2d6 at CL 1). And those things are *in addition* to our customary advancements for spell resistance/penetration, dispelling, duration, and the like.
3) "Preferred function of magic" simply referred to a character's 'casting style' -- blaster, debuffer, controller, summoner, etc. However, the matter of casting stat and other elements you mentioned *is* relevant. For instance, their incanter class allows you to choose your casting stat for your levels in the class. The reply text was truncated, so I don't recall the other relevant things you mentioned, though . . . .
We'll continue the duscussion as soon as may be -- brunch with the SO and somebof her friends.
Public Service Announcement: avoid the strip in Las Vegas if you're not a fan of crowds . . . . :D
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I realized while watching this that it is this model - the whole "break point"-thing - that is one of the many reasons I prefer many of the older d20 system games to Pathfinder, 4E, and 5E.
See, the older d20 systems were smooth math curves that left sudden shifts in both power and experiential play due to these break points - and I loved it. When the math is smooth, clean, and linear, and allowed to flow its own way, and it's allowed to mean something in-game, you have a natural internal progression that the world actually feels and reacts to. This feels significant. It feels right. And it feels mythical.
On the other hand, it feels like the history of development in PF and 4E and 5E is misguided attempt to inhibit the existence break points by arbitrarily shifting the math - it's one of my major issues with much of modern game design, that arbitrary shift for "balance" that seems to so captivate the modern design. One of the reasons why I adore the 4E (fan-made) "monster manual on a business card" is because it exactly eschews much of the fluff and simply displays a clean mathematical curve that indicates, "This is how the world is - work with it." - and presents a rules system that I found exciting and worth applying to player characters as well as monsters.
Breakpoints can definitely cause problems - and the 3.X paradigm has many "breakpoints" (in fact an incredibly high number of them) for casters - but the basic theory is sound, and, frankly, the balance felt right.
In any event, it's one of many thoughts I had, and the only one I could capture at the time.
Man, I gotta watch more Extra Credit vids. Good stuff! Break points and power spikes are things that I've had in the back of my head, but I didn't have words for them until now. :)
I'm definitely a fan of smooth progressions -- I actually wrote a more detailed form of Monster Manual on a Business Card, before MMoaBC, but hey I'm not bitter or anything -- and I have a tendency to downplay power spike and break point concerns when I'm game-writing.
With power spikes, on the one hand yeah, they create something for players to look forward to. But on the other, a game can only handle so many before you end up with the D&D caster issue where high level casters easily dominate the game.
With break points, I'm not sure what to look for in the context of a ttrpg. I mean yeah, there comes a point where most PCs can reliably one-shot those orc goons, but having two random factors (damage and to-hit rolls) make it fuzzy. But hey, like the vid says, playtest, playtest, PLAYTEST!
What did you like about older d20 systems and their break points?
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I now know more about moonshine vacations then I ever wanted to know.
And Tennessee.
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A couple of homebrew rule ideas I had.
1. What if Bravery applied to every Will save, not just for fear effects.
2. Since I have no intention of ever getting Unchained what spell list should I allow Magic Child Vigilantes use, since I'm the only person here that doesn't watch Anime or play Final Fantasy style games I'll let the experts decide.
1) YES; alt: give them a good will save (it’s pretty similar - only +1 more at the highest levels)
2) literally anything other than the unchained someone or list. Like, anything at all. Magical girl genre really varies from series-to-series, and the effects, and what they are like, differ, immensely. Someone or is more along the Pokémon lines, while others might be a bit more blastula, and others more Healy, and so on.
Point of clarification, “someone or” is supposed to be “summoner” - whooooops.
BLASTY* Magical Girl: Magus (maybe with gunslinger level 1 stuff and the quick clear deed, using gun - often two-handed - instead of normal Magus weapon, depending on BLASTY* magical girl variant)
HEAL-Y magical girl: oracle list (complete with auto-known cure wounds spells)
TECHNO-esque magical girl: alchemist list (reflavoring prepping vials as some other sort of expendable techno-esque thing, as appropriate
Digital/Spiritual-esque magical girl: psychic or wizard (this usually requires flavoring the transformation as going into either a digital or spirit world or something, with only normal-person abilities outside of that realm; PF, of course, can eschew this)
“Chosen One”/righteous paragon magical girl: Paladin (with a bit of fluff from cleric and/or Druid)
Digipokecard magical girl: summoner (seriously, the unchained is, like, the worst possible one they could use)
Inspirational magical girl: bard (often the leader - either intentionally or not - of others in a group who rallies them; may have a few self-buffs from other lists like bull’s strength or Transformation or...
very well done.
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HAPPY EASTER/PASSOVER/I THINK THATS ALL FOLKS!
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I will never understand why everyone in her family feels compelled to offer me a beer when I walk in the door.
A) I don't drink beer.
2) I'm driving.
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Admittedly that's one of the benefits of being in a family where no one drinks, that problem never comes up for us.
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I will never understand why everyone in her family feels compelled to offer me a beer when I walk in the door.
A) I don't drink beer.
2) I'm driving.
I do drink beer and I don't drive, but this never happens to me. All the ironicals are here.
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I like drinking, when it's warm out, it's gotta be 75 degrees or above.
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I drink on occasion.
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I think it's been two years or so for me.