NH, I think you did it wrong.So every GM misses stuff in an AP. "Oh, I forgot the bad guy could do that."
"Oh, I missed that whole section on how these things add to rebellion points."But it takes a rare sort to read the question: "How did other GMs deal with this situation where the room is under the effects of a Deeper Darkness spell and the creature only has regular Darkvision?" and answer with, "Well, my group had Light spells, torches, and a couple of them even had Darkvision, so it wasn't an issue at all for me."
I guess for me it's the difference in reading comprehension across an entire AP (hard, especially with the way they split up information in a non-intuitive manner), and comprehension in reading a very specific question about the AP.
It's just the good old, "If you don't understand the question, it's probably a better idea not to try to answer it..."
LOL! Re-read, kitty!
And that's a nice example of, "One-time thing! Totally natural! Nothing to see here, 'cause we all do it at least five times a day!"
EDIT: And speaking of au natural...
I knew I shouldn't have added ten items to my sub order and used priority mail.
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Oh now to the Han Solo thing. I don't really care about him, but I suspect that my BF likes him because he's a lovable rogue.
I was saying Han did it all wrong and really should have brought along tranquilizer guns, used it on Ren and haul him home before having "The Talk". And he was arguing no...parents always think best about their kids.
Again there's this part - can you use the force to neutralize poison?
So yes even though I wouldn't watch the Han Solo movie, if my BF brings me to watch I wouldn't say no either.
I would definitely say that Han Solo had a hand in my development.
But not nearly as much as Indiana Jones.
I was reading Light spells as the cantrip? Which would mean that it would do nothing in deeper darkness? Unless you meant Light spells as a category and in that category you included daylight?
I was saying, "This guy who posted was wrong because he believed that a Light spell would affect Deeper Darkness," and you said, "You are incorrect, NobodysHome, Light spells don't affect Deeper Darkness."
In short, you were agreeing with me.
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I think books by Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce and David Eddings had a hand in shaping my character. Though I've picked up Harry Dresden snark too.
The reason I watched Indiana Jones. I was on trapfinding duty as a seeker oracle when I walked into a pit trap in Rappan athuk.
Me: How the fish was I supposed to know it was there?
Someone in party suggested I watch Indiana Jones to spot traps better, so I did.
Part of rogue training, so to speak.
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I was reading Light spells as the cantrip? Which would mean that it would do nothing in deeper darkness? Unless you meant Light spells as a category and in that category you included daylight?I was saying, "This guy who posted was wrong because he believed that a Light spell would affect Deeper Darkness," and you said, "You are incorrect, NobodysHome, Light spells don't affect Deeper Darkness."
In short, you were agreeing with me.
Oh sorry. I blame too early in the morning.
I've been on the fence about whether to see Solo.
As soon as I heard that Alden Ehrenreich had been cast, I was in favor, because his work in "Hail Caesar" made him seem like an obvious choice for a young Han.
Buuuut... Disney screws a lot of things up.
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Oh Ya. Unemployment here:
We don't have unemploymemt benefits here, so it's off to the next job with you. The longer you stay unemployed, it doesn't look good on your record and prospective employers will ask about why you have gaps in your employment.
So here generally you try to look for a job if you think you're going to ge retrenched/before you give notice. And it's stressful with your parents constantly telling you to get a job. No matter how long in the day you've been at it.
I think I better stop before this really starts getting angsty.
That's also the reason I didn't want to talk about it. It starts to cause me to project bad vibes all around.
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I think maybe Disney is trying to apply their cartoon shtick to too many things, even when inappropriate, but honestly I didn't have many complaints about the new Star Wars series except Han really shouldn't have expected to be able to talk Ren down.
What an @rse really.
And Rey should have finished the job.
Again I'm not a very good movie critic.
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I don't know about movie reviews saying this isn't good etc, so far when people said things like Deadpool > Deadpool2, I've gone to watch both and I disagree. When NH said Rampage wasn't good(requiring 4 beers to enjoy) we watched it and didn't see anything wrong either.
Or maybe we have, as TL says, no standars.
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Censorship: I'm not letting my nephew watch let's plays of dark souls or bloodborne. Some of those creatures would creep him out, and let's not count in jump scares.
I'm not sure about blood and gore bits like from Witcher series. You can decapitate people, which I don't really find disturbing.
Am I supposed to find it disturbing?
*Maos*
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We don't censor, we're also sensible enough to have our kids watch The making of documentaries they love sticking on movies if they might be scared.
Pirates Of The Caribbean is our goto for that.
We do avoid certain things, like CSI type shows, or anything with a lot of gore, spousal abuse, evil clowns, violence against women, that sort of thing.
Stuff that goes over kid's heads are typically raunchy humor or more cartoonish violence (like Deadpool).
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I think books by Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce and David Eddings had a hand in shaping my character. Though I've picked up Harry Dresden snark too.
Mercedes Lackey and David Eddings are amazing. Now I have to figure out who Tamora Pierce is...
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I've been on the fence about whether to see Solo.
As soon as I heard that Alden Ehrenreich had been cast, I was in favor, because his work in "Hail Caesar" made him seem like an obvious choice for a young Han.Buuuut... Disney screws a lot of things up.
Oh, c'mon! The Little Mermaid was exactly like the fairy tale!
** spoiler omitted **I don't even want to think about looking at that stuff. Ewww!
Or maybe it's a guy thing. Guys are into this, females not so.
I've heard of women who enjoy it. I've never met one. At least one who's admitted it...
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Our kids were always awesome at self-censorship.
"Dad, I don't think I'm going to like this movie. It's making me uncomfortable."
"OK. Do you want me to turn it off?"
And the Imp would answer either, "Yes, please," in which case I'd turn it off, or, "No, I'll go to my room and do something else," in which case we watched it without them.
It's all about working within their boundaries so that they can learn what they are.
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Our kids were always awesome at self-censorship.
"Dad, I don't think I'm going to like this movie. It's making me uncomfortable."
"OK. Do you want me to turn it off?"And the Imp would answer either, "Yes, please," in which case I'd turn it off, or, "No, I'll go to my room and do something else," in which case we watched it without them.
It's all about working within their boundaries so that they can learn what they are.
weird.
I would have kept watching, damn the prepubescent feelings of naughtiness. Which did happen to me sometimes. Yes, even me. Then again I have a very strong anti censorship thing about me. Which runs contrary to my anti rudeness thing. But only sometimes.
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Mort’s censorship:
Novels with mushy stuff in it: *Skips pages until no mushy stuff appears*
Movies with mushy stuff in it: *Covers eyes until scene is over, then peeks out*
Porn: Not watching, *runs into room and hides under blankets*
I have a rather high tolerance to gore. I blame spending time in the kitchen when I was younger. The first time you pull out guts off a fish, you’re like eww…
Then there’s this…you wanted pig stomach soup?
You get to clean the pig stomach by wearing it over one hand like a glove, then rubbing salt on it and squeezing out the slimy membrane. Then you wash it with water, squeeze lime juice on it, wash it with water again, before putting it to cook, then cut into smaller pieces.
Also if you have issues with blood, there’s a whole lot of pig liver to cut, so get slicing.
Did I tell you I like stir fried pig heart too?
Do it a few more times, you get numb. So humans are just a little bigger on scale, organs and blood don’t bother me. Chances are I could probably look at all your intestines and pull them out. Pig, human, what’s the difference?
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I’m quite surprised there are others that read Merceces Lackey. David Eddings – more people do.
Both Mercedes Lackey and Tamora Pierce’s writings feature strong female characters. Even David Eddings does as well. From the style of her writing I would even venture a guess that Mercedes Lackey is a feminist. (See the Serpent’s Shadow). Granted that was a very different era.
One thing I didn’t like about Disney is that their earlier films were where the Princess waits for the Prince to rescue her (see Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella), which encourages girls to…depend on others. But Disney has changed that now, to keep up with the times. Girls should have equal opportunity with guys and should be able to do all the things that guys enjoy and not face societal pressures to conform on what girls are expected to do!
If I was once CG – that’s because of Mercedes Lackey’s books influence – there’s a lot about everyone should be given free will, and that with great power comes great responsibility.
If I were given a power in Mercedes Lackey world I’d say it’s empathy, but because of all the trouble it gives me, I have it blocked most of the time(think Jeanette from Spirits as White as Lightning) and when I get a bad day that’s when I start projecting and it starts getting nasty.
In Tamora Pierce’s world, I’d probably end up like Jory, as a Cook Mage =) Duh. Foodie.
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Personal references be damned, if you put "Can shave an angry bear with a skid loader" on your application, you'll get a call back.Considering we'd be hiring you to develop technical training on enterprise-level software, an answer like that that got past the HR department would definitely merit a callback.
I'm sure there's quite a bit of skill crossover.
So, uh, where do I set up the wet saw?
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Personal references be damned, if you put "Can shave an angry bear with a skid loader" on your application, you'll get a call back.Considering we'd be hiring you to develop technical training on enterprise-level software, an answer like that that got past the HR department would definitely merit a callback.
I'm sure there's quite a bit of skill crossover.
So, uh, where do I set up the wet saw?
*is completely horrified*
Damn. Makes me want to set up a completely horrified alias like Vidmaster7.
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Our kids were always awesome at self-censorship.
"Dad, I don't think I'm going to like this movie. It's making me uncomfortable."
"OK. Do you want me to turn it off?"And the Imp would answer either, "Yes, please," in which case I'd turn it off, or, "No, I'll go to my room and do something else," in which case we watched it without them.
It's all about working within their boundaries so that they can learn what they are.
weird.
I would have kept watching, damn the prepubescent feelings of naughtiness. Which did happen to me sometimes. Yes, even me. Then again I have a very strong anti censorship thing about me. Which runs contrary to my anti rudeness thing. But only sometimes.
Er... these were horror movies.
Unlike my father, *we* don't sit around in the living room watching porn.
EDIT:
It became a running joke. How many twentysomethings have to tell their dad to turn down the porn on an almost-nightly basis?
And why couldn't a Ph.D. in Physics run a cable to a different room?
Personal references be damned, if you put "Can shave an angry bear with a skid loader" on your application, you'll get a call back.Considering we'd be hiring you to develop technical training on enterprise-level software, an answer like that that got past the HR department would definitely merit a callback.
I'm sure there's quite a bit of skill crossover.
So, uh, where do I set up the wet saw?
*is completely horrified*
Damn. Makes me want to set up a completely horrified alias like Vidmaster7.
Once you start down that path it never ends. Ask CY
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You know you may be making your coffee too strong when going off of it for a day gives you headaches so bad you don't know whether to vomit or cry.
And wouldn't you just know, that's the day that the state Licensing analyst shows up at work for your surprise annual inspection.
We passed the inspection handily, but it's 8:00 p.m. and the head still feels like someone's been punching me in the back of the eyes.
This is why I only drink coffee occasionally and as needed. Though, I've never really had a caffeine headache...
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I drank almond coffee this morning (it's supposed to improve your sports performance and I've got a badminton session after work) and typically caffeine makes me get very hungry and I ate two pears and a quarter cup of pistachios and it isn't even lunch time yet.
LM, you are probably having a headache due to the dehydrating effects of coffee. Drink lots of water and try to hang around in cool places!
With vomiting it actually helps. Go and see if you can get puking, if it wouldn't be too inconvenient.
Caffeine addiction is usually marked by a headache in absence of the caffeine fix, in this case, coffee, since she didn't drink any this morning, this is the cause of her headache. That said, drinking water or taking an aspirin may help alleviate the headache, but the best thing for it is to get the caffeine fix, or sleep on it.
Our kids were always awesome at self-censorship.
"Dad, I don't think I'm going to like this movie. It's making me uncomfortable."
"OK. Do you want me to turn it off?"And the Imp would answer either, "Yes, please," in which case I'd turn it off, or, "No, I'll go to my room and do something else," in which case we watched it without them.
It's all about working within their boundaries so that they can learn what they are.
weird.
I would have kept watching, damn the prepubescent feelings of naughtiness. Which did happen to me sometimes. Yes, even me. Then again I have a very strong anti censorship thing about me. Which runs contrary to my anti rudeness thing. But only sometimes.
Er... these were horror movies.
Unlike my father, *we* don't sit around in the living room watching porn.
EDIT: ** spoiler omitted **
i like your dad.
If he is still with us, buy him a beverage of his choice. I'll reimburse you.
You know you may be making your coffee too strong when going off of it for a day gives you headaches so bad you don't know whether to vomit or cry.
And wouldn't you just know, that's the day that the state Licensing analyst shows up at work for your surprise annual inspection.
We passed the inspection handily, but it's 8:00 p.m. and the head still feels like someone's been punching me in the back of the eyes.