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Hell I get sad when I accidentally step on a snail in the garden.
I feel badly when that happens :(
@ CY, Yeah but starfinder is scifi and therefore objectively inferior to fantasy. (/s if it wasn't clear) Also, what exactly do your brothers argue thac0 about? How to do it? Or its (de)merits compared to other systems?
@ Tac, How did WotC treat you rudely?
Though it sounds petty, after attempting to ask questions to understand how 4e worked (simply due to naivete about the transition from one system - and the settings which I was deeply into at the time) I received more than one very... short... email:
1) informing me that I should really know better than to ask questions like this
2) that I should follow proper protocol (I had)
3) that I shouldn't ask the same question more than once (I hadn't)
4) that I shouldn't send in so many different response elements (I'd asked all of one question - the various email responses all referred to the same single question I'd sent in)
5) that I shouldn't contact them any more (after just the once)
6) that I wasn't welcome on their site for being rude (which, uh, what?)
To be clear, I don't remember the exact wording anymore. It was possible it was entirely intended as polite whatever, but the above is what I remember and what I took away from in how they interacted with me.
I received the first three emails before I even had a chance to notice. After those, I responded (with only a single email) to number four - I had apologized that I somehow mistook protocol, informed the email person what I thought I had done (navigating their site, following the advice for submitting questions, and where it was that I found it and how I used it), and hoped that my question could be answered (along with a question of how to ask it properly).
Follow that with 5 and then 6 and I was left feeling stung, rejected, and extremely confused.
But, and this is important, it's been a decade. I don't even have access to the same email account I did back then! My memories are hazy, and it's more of, "I remember things this way." by this time in life, than, "This is what actually, literally, definitely happened."
This only compounded all of my frustrations with changing from 3.X to 4e and deeply soured me on the experience. Nonetheless, I want to clarify: I still played 4e. For a couple of campaign! But... uh... they never really worked out as, you know, 'nearly as fun,' mechanically speaking.
(These days 4e is definitively a 'sometimes food'-type game where I take it and kind of ignore most of it, but use it - especially its setting which really is perfect for a 4e system as an internally-consistent world - as a chassis for a short game of some sort. It works well enough, but it can be sloggy when you have too many status effects, which can multiply quickly.)
(I hear that PF1 makes it a bit more consistently linked to CR.)
PF has "here are the stats you aim for in order to balance CR" akin to 5e's monster-making stuff.
CR is billed as a sort of monster level, but when you're homebrewing one, some things are linked to CR but others are linked to a vague simulation of fantasy physics.
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And with everything except AC being tied to HD, the whole process in retrospect is much more convoluted than it needs to be.
This... is true (except for the level thing - monster levels are a bit weird, but that's just an artifact of how level =/= challenge that is never really explained well).
I think the fantasy physics thing is worth addressing, because it talks about one of the most fundamental divisions between player preferences (though by no means the only one): how you hold onto and work on the world can deeply impact how you work out your stories and gaming system. There are many, maaaany other differences, but one of the reasons I've always loved the 3.X family of games is how they often simulate a consistent world across the board.
And the game never calls out what 4e calls minions/standards/solos and soldiers/artilleries/controllers/etc, which may have been obvious to other 3.x brewers, but was a problem for me that caused many cakewalks and TPKs even disregarding my brews. So when I read 4e's guidelines for monster homebrewing, everything clicked in my head. I realized why I had always had such trouble making challenging but winnable encounters, and how easy monster homebrewing is at its core! Anyway, to each their own obviously.
Humorously, one of my favorite things in 4e was... monster manual on a business card. For players and monsters, alike. So smooth.
(I still don't play it much, because there's not enough time and players and me in the world.)
I will say, I don't love 4e. But I like it, once I was able to get over all the frustrating parts. As for your experience with toxic players, yeah - it's a thing, for sure, everywhere. I think everyone here was mostly just talking about their own preferences (not anyone else's), but I know that, for my purpose, I ran into a lot of anti-3e vitriol as well.
It's kind of like the divide between FF6 and FF7 - these days I can acknowledge FF7 was a really good game, but it really wasn't what I was looking for in an ff at the time, and the unrelenting praise of the thing by fans new to the series as "the best game ever" (and refusal to accept an even better game, in my oh-so-young opinion , FF6, was even worth talking about) was so frustrating, that I armored up myself with hipsterism and haterade, and hated ff7 and all it stood for (while totes finishing the game and enjoying a lot of it, because it was, in fact, a good game).
(Also, these days, enough FF settings and games have come out that FF7's setting is no longer incongruous with the FF experience, but at the time it just was not what I wanted or expected from the series.)
The point of this is to say that I relate: a lot of times strong praise for FF7 or problems mentioned with FF6, no matter how accurate, still cause me to bristle in frustration - but ultimately, most of them are fair, not because they're definitely correct, but because they're subjective. I may not agree, but that doesn't make the opinion (or the person's reaction) wrong.
(People can have wrong opinions and bad reactions, but most such subjective opinions about entertaining media don't fall into this category - be in TTRPGs or VG/JRPGS.)
Tiger who?Tiger and Bunny, obviously
Not gonna lie, I still read "Tiger King" and think "Ah! Maybe that's another anime in the Tiger and Bunny series!" and get all excited for about half a second before the follow-up thought reminding me it's apparently about real people handling tigers as pets or something. I don't know I still haven't watched anything or looked anything up about it.
I thought Tiger King was also about terrible people doing terrible things.It is, but they don't get away with it (even the people who didn't go to jail were exposed).Still wont be able to watch it. I cant stand violence against animals.
Even pretend violence.Yes. I cry in movies when the dog dies.
Hell I get sad when I accidentally step on a snail in the garden.
I hate killing pretty much anything. I do, though. Because otherwise I wouldn't have a functioning house. But it still bothers me every time.
(I sound crazy, but I always tell whatever pest moves in to leave first, and try to shoo them out of the region; then bargain with them; then bring wrath and destruction when they just don't, 'cause kids get ant bites - like the other day - or other problems.)
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Also, anyone seen Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts on netflix? Because its amazing and I need to talk to people about how cool it is and how it needs an RPG adaption.
Yes, it is the General's favorite show on Netflix.
I think she's seen it twice or three times so far.
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Also, anyone seen Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts on netflix? Because its amazing and I need to talk to people about how cool it is and how it needs an RPG adaption.
It's amazing and I love it and I can't wait for the next season. :D I kept trying to watch it with my son, and wound up just watching it myself. :P That and Hilda. :)
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I think I popped a circuit breaker in my head earlier this week. I mean, when you cook, you have to expect occasional burns every so often. But this week, I keep touching/grabbing pans and lids that are still blazing hot. That little voice that's supposed to remind you "HEY! You just took that out of the oven 30 seconds ago! Your left hand is still wearing an oven glove. DON'T TOUCH!" has laryngitis or went out for drinks or something.
Another couple weeks and I'm not going to have fingerprints anymore.
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Finger prints grow back.
Which gives you at least a day to commit crimes Scott free (damn Scotts, slippery bastards, not like Steves, you can ALWAYS catch a Steve).
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Hey, I need DM help fast! The big bad my PCs are fighting says "Regeneration 5 (acid or fire) after her HP.
And of course WW hit her with an 18 pt fireball last round. What happens?
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...followed by a 26-pt scorching ray this round. HELP!
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Hey, I need DM help fast! The big bad my PCs are fighting says "Regeneration 5 (acid or fire) after her HP.
And of course WW hit her with an 18 pt fireball last round. What happens?
Every round she regenerates 5 HP.
Any round she takes acid or fire damage, her regen turns off. She does not regain HP that round.
If she takes it again the next round, regen stays off. Repeat every round until she goes a round where she doesn't take fire/acid damage, then it turns back on.
If she goes into negative HP while her regen is active, she becomes unconscious but cannot die, no matter how low her HP is, until she takes fire or acid damage. She continues to regain HP each round until she wakes up or takes damage that turns her regen off.
If her HP goes or is below negative CON on the same round her regen is off, she dies.
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Email from elementary school teacher "we're inviting all classmates to a zoom meeting on Monday. Please make sure everyone in the house is wearing clothes, this has been a problem before".
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Hey, I need DM help fast! The big bad my PCs are fighting says "Regeneration 5 (acid or fire) after her HP.
And of course WW hit her with an 18 pt fireball last round. What happens?
Every round she regenerates 5 HP.
Any round she takes acid or fire damage, her regen turns off. She does not regain HP that round.
If she takes it again the next round, regen stays off. Repeat every round until she goes a round where she doesn't take fire/acid damage, then it turns back on.
If she goes into negative HP while her regen is active, she becomes unconscious but cannot die, no matter how low her HP is, until she takes fire or acid damage. She continues to regain HP each round until she wakes up or takes damage that turns her regen off.
If her HP goes or is below negative CON on the same round her regen is off, she dies.
Orthos nailed it.
From d20PFSRD:
Regeneration (Ex)
A creature with this ability is difficult to kill. Creatures with regeneration heal damage at a fixed rate, as with fast healing, but they cannot die as long as their regeneration is still functioning (although creatures with regeneration still fall unconscious when their hit points are below 0). Certain attack forms, typically fire and acid, cause a creature’s regeneration to stop functioning on the round following the attack. During this round, the creature does not heal any damage and can die normally. The creature’s descriptive text describes the types of damage that cause the regeneration to cease functioning.Attack forms that don’t deal hit point damage are not healed by regeneration. Regeneration also does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation. Regenerating creatures can regrow lost portions of their bodies and can reattach severed limbs or body parts if they are brought together within 1 hour of severing. Severed parts that are not reattached wither and die normally.
A creature must have a Constitution score to have the regeneration ability.
Take note this is very different from how it operated in 3.x.
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Hey, I need DM help fast! The big bad my PCs are fighting says "Regeneration 5 (acid or fire) after her HP.
And of course WW hit her with an 18 pt fireball last round. What happens?
Every round she regenerates 5 HP.
Any round she takes acid or fire damage, her regen turns off. She does not regain HP that round.
If she takes it again the next round, regen stays off. Repeat every round until she goes a round where she doesn't take fire/acid damage, then it turns back on.
If she goes into negative HP while her regen is active, she becomes unconscious but cannot die, no matter how low her HP is, until she takes fire or acid damage. She continues to regain HP each round until she wakes up or takes damage that turns her regen off.
If her HP goes or is below negative CON on the same round her regen is off, she dies.
This. In a previous edition it worked quite differently, but in this one the only fire damage that matters is when it is in the negatives.
This came as quite a nasty shock to my Kingmaker character who was ready and prepped to take down trolls quickly and efficiently, but found that after quite a bit of fire damage to take it down, and a one-round switchover the troll was getting better. The alarm was sounded and we were forced to retreat. It was not a pleasant learning experience, but it was mine! Surprise! PF is different from 3.5! :D
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They very much so are harder to take alive, now.
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Well, it matters in the positives as it turns their HP regain off. So that's 5 HP of healing each round that goes away as long as they take damage that hits their weakness.
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Email from elementary school teacher "we're inviting all classmates to a zoom meeting on Monday. Please make sure everyone in the house is wearing clothes, this has been a problem before".
This? This is real.
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Thanks so much, Orthos! (and everyone else)
It took 14 rounds. They made some tactical choices early on that meant the big bad got to buff a whole bunch in another room while they knocked out the minions first, thinking they were being clever. (Okay, it turned out for the best, actually.)
Running magical bad guys is not one of my strengths. This was hard work.
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Well, it matters in the positives as it turns their HP regain off. So that's 5 HP of healing each round that goes away as long as they take damage that hits their weakness.
I accept this as technically correct!
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Tomorrow I begin my new life as a (not really) essential worker.
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Email from elementary school teacher "we're inviting all classmates to a zoom meeting on Monday. Please make sure everyone in the house is wearing clothes, this has been a problem before".This? This is real.
This is Wisconsin, home is like Vegas, so yes, expecting people to go a whole day at home wearing clothes is a bit of a stretch so apparently a family member walked through a zoom meeting with the teacher without clothes.
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Please use your webcams responsibly kids.
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Tomorrow I begin my new life as a (not really) essential worker.
Welcome to the essential non essential work force.
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Shh they will hear you then we will be out a job too.
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Hey, I need DM help fast! The big bad my PCs are fighting says "Regeneration 5 (acid or fire) after her HP.
And of course WW hit her with an 18 pt fireball last round. What happens?
The regeneration stops for 1 round. The target doesn't regain hit points and will die if dropped to –Con hp.
Scorching ray in the next round will extend the effect for 1 round, and so on.
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Isn't that nonessentially essential?
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Now were just being nonsensical.
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Hello, everyone!
Hey john.
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Now were just being nonsensical.Sensibly nonsensical.
Definitely wouldn't want to be nonsensically sensible that's for sure.
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Also, anyone seen Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts on netflix? Because its amazing and I need to talk to people about how cool it is and how it needs an RPG adaption.Yes, it is the General's favorite show on Netflix.
I think she's seen it twice or three times so far.
Does she also want to pet the mega bunny? Because I totally would.
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Also, anyone seen Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts on netflix? Because its amazing and I need to talk to people about how cool it is and how it needs an RPG adaption.It's amazing and I love it and I can't wait for the next season. :D I kept trying to watch it with my son, and wound up just watching it myself. :P That and Hilda. :)
It packs a surprising amount of stuff and emotions in there.
Also
YUMYAN HAMMERPAW
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All I know is I'm probably putting our trailer back to together (unless they give us the convertible bus) and maybe digging a hole.
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Does she also want to pet the mega bunny? Because I totally would.Also, anyone seen Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts on netflix? Because its amazing and I need to talk to people about how cool it is and how it needs an RPG adaption.Yes, it is the General's favorite show on Netflix.
I think she's seen it twice or three times so far.
Most likely, though we have a bunny at home for her to cuddle with when people get stupid (she works for the state, so it's a frequent occurrence).
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Definitely wouldn't want to be nonsensically sensible that's for sure.Now were just being nonsensical.Sensibly nonsensical.I am essentially nonsensically nonessentially sensible.
Third base!
But can you say that out loud 3 times fast?
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Also, anyone seen Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts on netflix? Because its amazing and I need to talk to people about how cool it is and how it needs an RPG adaption.It's amazing and I love it and I can't wait for the next season. :D I kept trying to watch it with my son, and wound up just watching it myself. :P That and Hilda. :)It packs a surprising amount of stuff and emotions in there.
Also
YUMYAN HAMMERPAW
Ting tong wallawalla bingbang?
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So after this weekend's latest round of panic, spurred by a combination of "I went to a store" (wearing a mask and gloves) and an extremely high pollen alert from cottonwood trees (which everyone in our neighborhood has in their backyards), I did some calculating. I am four times more likely to die from a gunshot than I am of testing positive for covid-19 in Dallas county.
Now I'm hiding the keys to the trigger locks on WW's firearms.
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Back to the grind. Batteries not recharged enough.
As I posted elsewhere, last night was a fun time!
We got a sick Firedove. We got a sick Youngest.
I did buncha of laundry (specifically for Youngest).
Hah! Sleep is for the weeeeaaaaak! (that's me, zzz...)
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I'm (essentially) running a broken down plate packer up to Waunakee.
Which of course means visiting Troy and Tiny.
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Back to the grind. Batteries not recharged enough.
Right here with ya on both counts.