
lisamarlene |
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My friend works at a hospital. He hates it. Every time he tries to call in sick they say "Come on in, we'll fix you up and get you working in no time."
No, that's a thing. A long time ago, I had a friend who was a surgical nurse in the hospital. Her coworkers knew that bad hangovers were not an acceptable reason to call in sick, so instead they came in a little early, she hooked them up to an IV on the sly and gave them her quick get-you-feeling-well-enough-to-work cure. She told me at one point what was in it, but I can't remember now.

gran rey de los mono |
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gran rey de los mono wrote:My friend works at a hospital. He hates it. Every time he tries to call in sick they say "Come on in, we'll fix you up and get you working in no time."No, that's a thing. A long time ago, I had a friend who was a surgical nurse in the hospital. Her coworkers knew that bad hangovers were not an acceptable reason to call in sick, so instead they came in a little early, she hooked them up to an IV on the sly and gave them her quick get-you-feeling-well-enough-to-work cure. She told me at one point what was in it, but I can't remember now.
I think they did something like that on Scrubs once. Also, it's my understanding that at least some of the symptoms of a hangover are caused by dehydration, so a simple saline drip would likely help that pretty quickly.

NobodysHome |
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Happy Birthday, Vid!
And a bonus "Grumpy Old Man" tirade (TM):
So, I understand that maintaining the PRD was a PITA, so they offloaded it to the Archives of Nethys.
The problem is, as far as I can tell, the Archives make no effort to distinguish between the core rulebooks (Core, APG, Ultimates, etc.) and the Player Companions that add ludicrous spam (Champions of Purity, I'm looking at you).
So I used to be able to say, "If it's not in the PRD, you can't have it."
Now I have to have my players run source reports and tell them, "If it's from a Player Companion, you can't have it."
PITA.
And yeah, last night I had to cut our Strange Aeons game short because instead of being able to bring up the online rulebooks and quickly find the reference I needed ("What IS the Concentration check to cast while grappled, anyway?"), I ended up having to go to the physical books, which was much, MUCH slower.
Would've been nice to see that little changeover publicized a LOT more, so I could have been ready for it BEFORE I started running a game and got blindsided by it...
EDIT: OK, this morning the Archives are working OK and I see that I can find what I'm looking for once I'm used to the navigation. But last night when I needed them they were running at about 90 seconds load time per page. Which is a LOOOOOOONG time for my players to sit around waiting for a ruling...

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Happy Birthday, Vid!
And a bonus "Grumpy Old Man" tirade (TM):
So, I understand that maintaining the PRD was a PITA, so they offloaded it to the Archives of Nethys.The problem is, as far as I can tell, the Archives make no effort to distinguish between the core rulebooks (Core, APG, Ultimates, etc.) and the Player Companions that add ludicrous spam (Champions of Purity, I'm looking at you).
So I used to be able to say, "If it's not in the PRD, you can't have it."
Now I have to have my players run source reports and tell them, "If it's from a Player Companion, you can't have it."PITA.
And yeah, last night I had to cut our Strange Aeons game short because instead of being able to bring up the online rulebooks and quickly find the reference I needed ("What IS the Concentration check to cast while grappled, anyway?"), I ended up having to go to the physical books, which was much, MUCH slower.
Would've been nice to see that little changeover publicized a LOT more, so I could have been ready for it BEFORE I started running a game and got blindsided by it...
EDIT: OK, this morning the Archives are working OK and I see that I can find what I'm looking for once I'm used to the navigation. But last night when I needed them they were running at about 90 seconds load time per page. Which is a LOOOOOOONG time for my players to sit around waiting for a ruling...
I'm not currently a fan of the Archives switch, either. I liked being able to just click on the book I wanted to look through, rather than having to wonder if something is from an allowable book or not.

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I've never been a fan of the reference websites anyway.
We've started discussing which books to use before games.
Usually CRB, APG, OA, ACG, UI, and UW.
I'm with you on player companions.
I'm core only after a few disposable income wars went badly. Yes, I realize everything is online now, but time is also a resource, and no, I do not trust you when you say a sketchy website says your wizard can cast transformation as a free action when low on hit points. Yes, someone tried that.

captain yesterday |
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captain yesterday wrote:I'm core only after a few disposable income wars went badly. Yes, I realize everything is online now, but time is also a resource, and no, I do not trust you when you say a sketchy website says your wizard can cast transformation as a free action when low on hit points. Yes, someone tried that.I've never been a fan of the reference websites anyway.
We've started discussing which books to use before games.
Usually CRB, APG, OA, ACG, UI, and UW.
I'm with you on player companions.
There's nothing wrong with that!
In fairness though we'd get weird with our options rather than abusive, also we don't argue rules, at all (in fact the General has the barest grasp of the rules out of any of us, though she literally decides how rules are interpreted at her workplace, so that might have something to do with it).

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captain yesterday wrote:I'm core only after a few disposable income wars went badly. Yes, I realize everything is online now, but time is also a resource, and no, I do not trust you when you say a sketchy website says your wizard can cast transformation as a free action when low on hit points. Yes, someone tried that.I've never been a fan of the reference websites anyway.
We've started discussing which books to use before games.
Usually CRB, APG, OA, ACG, UI, and UW.
I'm with you on player companions.
We locked things down after the litanies came out. "Yes, I'm a paladin, and I can lock you down so I can full-round attack you while smiting with no save (Fire of Entanglement, where even if they save they can't move for a round) as a 2nd-level swift action, or get +4 AC, +4 saves, flight, darkvision, a bunch of resistances and immunities, plus a frigging Globe of Invulnerability, all at 1 minute per level (Greater Angelic Aspect)!"
That, plus the sheer number of times Globe of Invulnerability made me want to turn ALL of my creatures incorporeal, just led to locking things down.
EDIT: It just got to the point of:
GM: That spell does what?!?!?
Player: It does x, and y, AND z, and it does them all as a swift action.
GM: That can't possibly be correct. (Checks PRD. On rare occasions it's there (the litanies), but on most occasions it's not (the aspects or force sphere))
OK. That's too over the top. I have to ban that.
Player: But I've already built my character and printed my character sheet! And Hero Labs allowed it! So what's the problem?
GM: (Long-exasperated sigh)

John Napier 698 |
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Hey, NH. Mekkis made a mirror of the old PRD (7/20/2018 or thereabouts) and put it on Github. Download the .zip file and unzip to C:/paizo/prd, I think. Mekkis said that he'd also put it on his own server.

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captain yesterday wrote:...um...will you be competing in the cornholing championships or just watching...?I might be too tired to go to the national cornholing championships this weekend at Oktoberfest.
Or cheese days, we haven't decided.
Spectator, I get too passionate about competitive cornholing.