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::shrug::
I didn't say my opinion was a popular one.
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Now you're just trying to shift the results in your favor!
Well played.
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The lab results FINALLY came back, and GothBard, Impus Minor, and I all came back negative. I can finally go shopping again!!!!!
Except...
...it's a holiday!
D'oh!
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That sounds more like a problem with the player rather than the rules to me.You've been lucky then. I've had full on meltdowns from people who wanted to do chicanery with gold they felt they should get because they gained a level.It's just a guideline, not a hard and fast rule. Frankly, in every game I've been in the only time anyone looks at it is if they are making a new character so they know how much equipment they get to start with.I truly hate wealth by level.:'(
Get outta here, you! You ruin games by turning them into accounting and argument!
We are living in a world where both players and dungeon masters can access the same books, but the rules are still very much written from the mindset of the players never seeing what's going on behind the screen, even after all these years. And once it's written down, to a subset of players, it is very, very much a rule. Especially if you can look it up online and call out the DM on his BS.
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The lab results FINALLY came back, and GothBard, Impus Minor, and I all came back negative. I can finally go shopping again!!!!!
Except...
...it's a holiday!
D'oh!
I'm just glad everyone's healthy and I can get back to drilling into your house.
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::shrug::
I didn't say my opinion was a popular one.
I wholeheartedly endorse this viewpoint or opinion.
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)
Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
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Do stores and services by you actually close down today? There are only really like... three types of services that shut down in my area on pretty much any non-S tier holiday and those are schools, government offices, and banks.
He just means that all the stores will be packed with people. You don't go to grocery stores or big box stores in the East Bay on Monday holidays unless you like crowds and long lines. And since NH has specifically mentioned needing to make a Costco run... (shudder)
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
I left in 1988.
That's over 40 years ago.Yes, I've gone soft.
Also, it was 29 when I woke up this morning, my bedroom is on a corner of the house and has 6'x13' single-pane picture windows on two walls, there's zero insulation in the attic, and we can't afford to turn up the thermostat, so extra blankets and sweaters for everyone.
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Do stores and services by you actually close down today? There are only really like... three types of services that shut down in my area on pretty much any non-S tier holiday and those are schools, government offices, and banks.
Being in the San Francisco Bay Area, MLK day gets a promotion. "Ubiquitous" chain stores like Safeway and Target will be open. Costco is rumored to treat its employees like human beings, and I've been surprised by their holiday closures before. The corner store tends to close for all nationally-recognized holidays.
So the places I really need to go (Costco and the corner store) are a question mark and a "no".
And don't worry, LM; I go right when Costco opens at 9:00 am. You'd be surprised how few people are out big box shopping at 9:00 am on a holiday morning...
EDIT: OK. Just found out that Costco is indeed open.
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He just means that all the stores will be packed with people. You don't go to grocery stores or big box stores in the East Bay on Monday holidays unless you like crowds and long lines. And since NH has specifically mentioned needing to make a Costco run... (shudder)
Ahhh, yeah that makes more sense, I wouldn't want to be part of the swarm right now either, that's for sure.
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He just means that all the stores will be packed with people. You don't go to grocery stores or big box stores in the East Bay on Monday holidays unless you like crowds and long lines. And since NH has specifically mentioned needing to make a Costco run... (shudder)Ahhh, yeah that makes more sense, I wouldn't want to be part of the swarm right now either, that's for sure.
I'm very pragmatic about the whole thing. I go to a store right as it opens. If the parking lot is already 2/3 full, I turn around and go home. No need to stress about things when I can make a quick Andronico's Safeway trip and get at least the essentials for the week.
Oh, and speaking of which, I was wrong about my online Safeway order: They let you select the store, so I selected the old Andronico's, which has its own butcher counter, deli, and bakery.
It turns out that the shopper went to the Safeway on San Pablo in El Cerrito, which is well known to be the worst Safeway within 20 miles of here, explaining the terrible produce, lack of any meat, and inedible cookies. So it wasn't even an algorithm selecting the Safeway closest to my house (the "lower Solano" Safeway), it was the shopper actively choosing a different Safeway for their own convenience.
Dear Safeway,
If you have a store selector on your online shopping web site, then maybe, just maybe, you should require your shoppers to shop at that store!!!
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(1) Yep. Costco was slightly lighter than a typical Sunday morning.
(2) Impus Major's test just came back negative. Which strongly implies he never had COVID, and the hospital test (they only gave him one) was a false positive.
EDIT:
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You've been lucky then. I've had full on meltdowns from people who wanted to do chicanery with gold they felt they should get because they gained a level.It's just a guideline, not a hard and fast rule. Frankly, in every game I've been in the only time anyone looks at it is if they are making a new character so they know how much equipment they get to start with.I truly hate wealth by level.:'(
Get outta here, you! You ruin games by turning them into accounting and argument!
I mostly play ABP+2 so WBL doesn't really come into play, but the few games we did without ABP, we usually got too much cash to really know what to do with it.
There is this one time in an Elder Scrolls campaign where it felt like we were living in abject poverty. When we finally killed a vampire that basically press-ganged us and stole all his stuff, we went from being horribly poor to completely loaded with money.
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People adventure for wealth and treasure. So that's exactly what I give them.
I adventure for power and personal advancement!
Wealth is merely a tool to reach that and patch the weak points or amplify the strong aspects.
The lab results FINALLY came back, and GothBard, Impus Minor, and I all came back negative. I can finally go shopping again!!!!!
Except...
...it's a holiday!
D'oh!
Holiday?
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
I left in 1988.
That's over 40 years ago.
Come on, I am not yet 42 and I was already quite grown up in '88 and already in school.
You are spending definitely too much time with Freehold...
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Holiday?The lab results FINALLY came back, and GothBard, Impus Minor, and I all came back negative. I can finally go shopping again!!!!!
Except...
...it's a holiday!
D'oh!
Ok, I saw in MLK in another post, that's Martin Luther King's day, right?
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(1) Yep. Costco was slightly lighter than a typical Sunday morning.
(2) Impus Major's test just came back negative. Which strongly implies he never had COVID, and the hospital test (they only gave him one) was a false positive.EDIT: ** spoiler omitted **
Well, I actually sort of play a futuristic paladin right now.
Brother Alessandros is a knight of the new Teutonic Order in the service of the greatly modernized and progressive Catholic Church in Infinity. I also serve in Bureau Noir which fights against existential threats to the humanity...
Today we learned that in a city where riots escalated into full scale anti-corporate rebellion, alien mind-infecting infiltrators might have infected have 20-30 thousands of rebels... We just got access to two suitcase thermonuclear devices that are our backup in case anything went wrong, to destroy the city's heating system (it is a deadly icy planet that could give Hoth run for its money).
I don't really like the idea of killing half a million citizens to get rid of the infestation.
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....
Dear Safeway,
If you have a store selector on your online shopping web site, then maybe, just maybe, you should require your shoppers to shop at that store!!!FWIW - I've been shopping groceries in the middle of the night since before the pandemic. Staff always outnumber customers at those hours and, if your convo is pleasant, they'll even retrieve items from the dock that are apparently out of stock.Dear NobodysHome,
The price point for that level of customer service exceeds the limit we've established. We thank you for your concern and please direct further suggestions to the nearest tualet.
Aaaah, that brings back memories of the "Tuesday afternoon video store customer". Nobody ever came in on Tuesdays. Something about weekends, due dates, or whatever. So yeah, anyone who came in on a Tuesday afternoon was going to get superlative service because we were bored out of our gourds.
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Ok, I saw in MLK in another post, that's Martin Luther King's day, right?Holiday?The lab results FINALLY came back, and GothBard, Impus Minor, and I all came back negative. I can finally go shopping again!!!!!
Except...
...it's a holiday!
D'oh!
You are correct. Requisite link to learn more than you ever wanted to about the history of the holiday.
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
I left in 1988.
That's over 40 years ago.Come on, I am not yet 42 and I was already quite grown up in '88 and already in school.
You are spending definitely too much time with Freehold...
It feels like much longer.
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I gotteth to use mine two-hander in sparynge todaye, against an speare. It did notte go welle.
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
I left in 1988.
That's over 40 years ago.Come on, I am not yet 42 and I was already quite grown up in '88 and already in school.
You are spending definitely too much time with Freehold...
Time works differently in Wisconsin. There's still people that refuse to acknowledge that anything after 1988 has actually happened.
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Well, I actually sort of play a futuristic paladin right now.
Brother Alessandros is a knight of the new Teutonic Order in the service of the greatly modernized and progressive Catholic Church in Infinity. I also serve in Bureau Noir which fights against existential threats to the humanity...
Today we learned that in a city where riots escalated into full scale anti-corporate rebellion, alien mind-infecting infiltrators might have infected have 20-30 thousands of rebels... We just got access to two suitcase thermonuclear devices that are our backup in case anything went wrong, to destroy the city's heating system (it is a deadly icy planet that could give Hoth run for its money).
I don't really like the idea of killing half a million citizens to get rid of the infestation.
Something else to consider for going DEEP into the rabbit hole of conspiracy -- what if the corporate is actually the infected vector, and the idea is to wipe out the rebels (and thus any level of accountability and/or responsibility to their workers/residents?).
After all, a couple of nukes to take care of a city? "Horrible accident" or "Terrorist Activity" (which they are probably insured for, if they are smart corporate elites) so they'll not only get a tax write-off, but also a potential payout from insurance.
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The infection vector is a hidden weapon factory that is somewhere in the industrial area of the city. The corporate forces within the city might or might not be infected but we know for sure that there are infected among rebels.
And yes, the explosion will be probably blamed on rebels going full terrorist mode.
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So... just how lazy and uninformed are my kids?
This morning I woke up and found a text message on my phone from 5:00 pm last night:
Impus Minor: What's for dinner?
(1) GothBard and I were in the studio, and he was in his room, so asking in person would have involved walking 60' (20m) and opening 3 doors. Hardly heavy lifting.
(2) Impus Minor knows darned well that my phone sits on my bedside table for most of its existence, so of course I didn't see the message until this morning.
I swear, my autobiography is going to be entitled, "My Dumb Kids".
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Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
I left in 1988.
That's over 40 years ago.Come on, I am not yet 42 and I was already quite grown up in '88 and already in school.
You are spending definitely too much time with Freehold...
Hey!
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It feels like much longer.Well, that was unintentional.
And it's a little too cold.
(Gets dressed.)Did you just say it was cold. In Texas.
Clearly you've been out of Wisconsin for far too long.
I left in 1988.
That's over 40 years ago.Come on, I am not yet 42 and I was already quite grown up in '88 and already in school.
You are spending definitely too much time with Freehold...
HEY!!!
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Ok, I saw in MLK in another post, that's Martin Luther King's day, right?Holiday?The lab results FINALLY came back, and GothBard, Impus Minor, and I all came back negative. I can finally go shopping again!!!!!
Except...
...it's a holiday!
D'oh!
Yes.
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It's really depressing to read an article like this one and realize that 4 of the 5 "banned phrases" are utterly routine in every single meeting we ever have. (OK, except, "You'll get 10 minutes of your life back", since ending a meeting early is virtually unheard of. But EVERY meeting that ends early ends with that phrase.)
I admit, I haven't heard, "We're building the plane while we're flying it."
That one's just odd.
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It's really depressing to read an article like this one and realize that 4 of the 5 "banned phrases" are utterly routine in every single meeting we ever have. (OK, except, "You'll get 10 minutes of your life back", since ending a meeting early is virtually unheard of. But EVERY meeting that ends early ends with that phrase.)
I admit, I haven't heard, "We're building the plane while we're flying it."
That one's just odd.
I've never heard the airplane analogy in a meeting before, either. I look forward to using it to show everyone how trendy I am regarding corporate lingo.
But seriously, I can get behind griping about over-used phrases in meetings like the ones used in this article, but far more aggravating to me would be if the meeting was run by someone like this author who apparently treats meetings like they're a kindergarten class? Those tone-setting exercises seem disrespectful to other attendees' ability to attend a meeting (and it sounds like she admits they're just to fill time), and if she actually ends meetings with "Thank you so much for your presence and participation," I'd have to keep the camera off so she wouldn't see my eye rolling.
Man, I love work.
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So... just how lazy and uninformed are my kids?
(...)
I swear, my autobiography is going to be entitled, "My Dumb Kids".
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So... just how lazy and uninformed are my kids?
This morning I woke up and found a text message on my phone from 5:00 pm last night:
Impus Minor: What's for dinner?(1) GothBard and I were in the studio, and he was in his room, so asking in person would have involved walking 60' (20m) and opening 3 doors. Hardly heavy lifting.
C'mon! Those are whole 20 meters to walk... Not to mention 3 doors to open!
Not to mention having to open your mouth and talk to actual people!
Anyway. I would have to walk the length of my flat twice and a bit to make 20 meters...
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So... just how lazy and uninformed are my kids?
This morning I woke up and found a text message on my phone from 5:00 pm last night:
Impus Minor: What's for dinner?(1) GothBard and I were in the studio, and he was in his room, so asking in person would have involved walking 60' (20m) and opening 3 doors. Hardly heavy lifting.
C'mon! Those are whole 20 meters to walk... Not to mention 3 doors to open!
Not to mention having to open your mouth and talk to actual people!
Anyway. I would have to walk the length of my flat twice and a bit to make 20 meters...
If he could pass through walls it would be all of 6 meters. But he has to leave his room (wrong direction 3 meters), walk another 3 meters sideways, then make up the difference (another 4-5 meters or so), so maybe it's only 16 meters. But, just like your flat, it's walking in circles because walls get in the way.
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I did not have Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard on my 2022 bingo card.
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I did not have Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard on my 2022 bingo card.
I did!
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Went to look at future primary schools for Sonic with ALL (DE) and the kids today, one regular one, which we all liked, and one Catholic one, which we liked less. For the distinctly non-Catholic L. Longears, a school with big old statues of a very Caucasian Jesus with his heart out and little altars at every corner was quite the experience, and they also needed to see Sonic's certificate of baptism before they'd consider letting him in. They both go to a Catholic school at the moment, but that one seems to be a lot more chilled out about the whole thing.
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If he could pass through walls it would be all of 6 meters. But he has to leave his room (wrong direction 3 meters), walk another 3 meters sideways, then make up the difference (another 4-5 meters or so), so maybe it's only 16 meters. But, just like your flat, it's walking in circles because walls get in the way.So... just how lazy and uninformed are my kids?
This morning I woke up and found a text message on my phone from 5:00 pm last night:
Impus Minor: What's for dinner?(1) GothBard and I were in the studio, and he was in his room, so asking in person would have involved walking 60' (20m) and opening 3 doors. Hardly heavy lifting.
C'mon! Those are whole 20 meters to walk... Not to mention 3 doors to open!
Not to mention having to open your mouth and talk to actual people!
Anyway. I would have to walk the length of my flat twice and a bit to make 20 meters...
Yeah, I get some extra 2-3 meters by going to kitchen through the door, instead of phasing through the wall.
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It's really depressing to read an article like this one and realize that 4 of the 5 "banned phrases" are utterly routine in every single meeting we ever have. (OK, except, "You'll get 10 minutes of your life back", since ending a meeting early is virtually unheard of. But EVERY meeting that ends early ends with that phrase.)
I admit, I haven't heard, "We're building the plane while we're flying it."
That one's just odd.
No problem with any of this save the plane one.
Because that's a sign noone knows what they are doing.
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That is getting too close.
Friend's wife tested positive yesterday (and got the confirming PCR results today).
I saw that friend on Monday (he is a werewolf athlete from a backward planet, we both form the party muscles).
He had negative results on Monday (he has to test constantly because he works at a retirement home).
I might need to get my first test soon.
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Guess who’s got two thumbs and tested positive for COVID?! ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
(Follow up tests will be had to make sure, but anyway. Also, kids tested negative.)
Fun times at the household, let me tell you~!
Gettin' bettah!
Kids are back in school. I'm still recovering, but basically on the upside, I think so long as I don't have more nearly-sleepless nights like last night which likely shoot my immune system in the foot~!
I'm glad I was able to get both shots and booster in before this puppy hit. I'm prime material for it to crush, and while it's been rough, it's been far milder for me than many.
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I truly hate wealth by level.Agreed 100%. But what you learn when you drop it entirely is that you have to start adjusting CRs downward, and that "meaningless" DR 15/magic is suddenly a "big deal". Easier to make sure your players have "good enough" gear to be happy and effective in CR-appropriate encounters. And my players roleplay much better when they feel like they have plenty of money to give away to NPCs.
Same!
... I cannot tell you how much I kept frustrating my GM by constantly absorbing large treasures, vaguely sorting through them, and then thoroughly reassigning them to various NPCs in Kingmaker. It wasn't that big a deal, and we never needed equipment, but it made it really, really difficult to justify anything like rebellion or intrigue or anything when there was literally no reason to ever reject ruler-ship.
(That wasn't just because I gave stuff away - it was very clear that literally everyone would degrade without us on the throne. But giving away huge piles of excess treasure meant that our kingdom was wealthy, we had lots of very loyal folks, and we had magic items around as a "just in case" and disasters simply weren't as disastrous.)
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We're doing our biweekly game over Zoom and roll20 today. We were supposed to start 52 minutes ago and people are still dorking around trying to figure out their tech.
Happily, I prepared everything for dinner (pancetta mac & cheese, and rotkohl) before we started, so food will not be an issue.
*sad noises about missing games with others*
Played Carrion Crown tonight, after a month off. And because of illness, and abundance of caution, we played online. Of course, we weren't planning to play online, so I only had about 45 minutes to try and get things set up for it. And the players left a lot of XP on the table. Basically, they were supposed to explore this tiny abandoned village (about a dozen houses, with only a few having anything in them), but after checking about a third of them they have decided to leave. There was 7200 possible XP for finding/deducing information. They got 1200. There was also about 10,000 XP in monsters/traps they could get. They got about 3500. And without finding all the information, they lose the chance to earn even more XP from using the information later.Situations like this are why every GM past my GM for Rise of the Runelords went to 'story-based leveling' -- it took a tremendous amount of time and effort to calculate the actuarial tables to the right arcane frequency to calibrate the friendingness of our particular party against 'real xp the party was supposed to earn'.
When we hit about Book Three she threw up her arms and declared 'No exp, I'll tell you when you can level, don't worry about the math, I'll make sure you're ready for the challenges you're supposed to be facing.'
To cover 'side-threads ** spoiler omitted ** for example, the GM used adventurers that the party could encounter in Sandpoint, Magnimar, and elsewhere to handle the lingering threads, and we'd get a...
One of my (many) favorite moments in Kingmaker was driving the GM up a wall by entering the <spoiler> from the back end, smacking down the boss, and then kind of leisurely exploring and cleaning up thereafter.