Yes, at times, because sometimes people think they're not doing their job.
Yes, at times, because sometimes people think they're not doing their job.
First: I get dressed.
Second: trying to see if this allows me to see my post, because a weird thing happened.
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Freehold.
I don't know who you were aiming your snow machine at, but I know it wasn't me.
Recalibrate your aim and try again.
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Sadly, Stupid may be the only thing in the world less concretely, uniformly defined than Good and Evil. Especially since more often than not it's just a codeword for "does not agree with me on X subject(s)".My wife bought me a Harry Dresden shirt. The front is "Saving the World One Act of Random Destruction at a Time"
However, the back is one of my favorite Jim Butcher quotes - “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
I wore it to the office today. They need to learn or be cleansed.
orthos.
We agree on something!
Fraptous Day!
In my case, I don't use it as that kind of code word. I'm in IT, and the vast majority of these people do not *think* about anything - and that's beyond the boundaries of "computer issues". I worry about which people in my office have guns at home because I legitimately can't trust them not to hurt themselves/others/office equipment with string. No joke. It's happened. More than once. And if they've failed that below-basic test...
I know this sounds elitist and smug as all get out, but I don't know how else to put it.
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Yes, at times, because sometimes people think they're not doing their job.
ive seen people get written up for not doing anything when they were told to do nothing.
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Sadly, Stupid may be the only thing in the world less concretely, uniformly defined than Good and Evil. Especially since more often than not it's just a codeword for "does not agree with me on X subject(s)".My wife bought me a Harry Dresden shirt. The front is "Saving the World One Act of Random Destruction at a Time"
However, the back is one of my favorite Jim Butcher quotes - “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
I wore it to the office today. They need to learn or be cleansed.
orthos.
We agree on something!
Fraptous Day!
In my case, I don't use it as that kind of code word. I'm in IT, and the vast majority of these people do not *think* about anything - and that's beyond the boundaries of "computer issues". I worry about which people in my office have guns at home because I legitimately can't trust them not to hurt themselves/others/office equipment with string. No joke. It's happened. More than once. And if they've failed that below-basic test...
I know this sounds elitist and smug as all get out, but I don't know how else to put it.
On the one hand I understand and agree.
On the other, I've lost count of how many times I've been considered stupid because of my religious, political, social, economic, entertainment, or many, many other beliefs, and to be blunt I wouldn't trust anyone mortal to be the arbiter of such things.
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Well, now the s**t's going to hit the fan. He tested a lab on assignment rules. It failed. He moved on to the next lab, wherein he deleted all of those rules so they wouldn't cause errant system behavior. So I can't check what he did because he didn't stop, so we have to stop everything and do a full re-test.
Our manager is displeased.
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<headdesk>
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Sadly, Stupid may be the only thing in the world less concretely, uniformly defined than Good and Evil. Especially since more often than not it's just a codeword for "does not agree with me on X subject(s)".My wife bought me a Harry Dresden shirt. The front is "Saving the World One Act of Random Destruction at a Time"
However, the back is one of my favorite Jim Butcher quotes - “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
I wore it to the office today. They need to learn or be cleansed.
orthos.
We agree on something!
Fraptous Day!
In my case, I don't use it as that kind of code word. I'm in IT, and the vast majority of these people do not *think* about anything - and that's beyond the boundaries of "computer issues". I worry about which people in my office have guns at home because I legitimately can't trust them not to hurt themselves/others/office equipment with string. No joke. It's happened. More than once. And if they've failed that below-basic test...
I know this sounds elitist and smug as all get out, but I don't know how else to put it.
On the one hand I understand and agree.
On the other, I've lost count of how many times I've been considered stupid because of my religious, political, social, economic, entertainment, or many, many other beliefs, and to be blunt I wouldn't trust anyone mortal to be the arbiter of such things.
Yea, I can kind of relate...
My current worry though is that people are increasingly couching any disagreement in systems of beliefs as being a matter of Good and Evil.
This really tickles my cynical bones, and makes me very distrustful of anyone who claim to be either Good or Evil.
Thusly my reaction to hearing such is often the simple question of "to whom?"
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Sadly, Stupid may be the only thing in the world less concretely, uniformly defined than Good and Evil. Especially since more often than not it's just a codeword for "does not agree with me on X subject(s)".My wife bought me a Harry Dresden shirt. The front is "Saving the World One Act of Random Destruction at a Time"
However, the back is one of my favorite Jim Butcher quotes - “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
I wore it to the office today. They need to learn or be cleansed.
orthos.
We agree on something!
Fraptous Day!
In my case, I don't use it as that kind of code word. I'm in IT, and the vast majority of these people do not *think* about anything - and that's beyond the boundaries of "computer issues". I worry about which people in my office have guns at home because I legitimately can't trust them not to hurt themselves/others/office equipment with string. No joke. It's happened. More than once. And if they've failed that below-basic test...
I know this sounds elitist and smug as all get out, but I don't know how else to put it.
On the one hand I understand and agree.
On the other, I've lost count of how many times I've been considered stupid because of my religious, political, social, economic, entertainment, or many, many other beliefs, and to be blunt I wouldn't trust anyone mortal to be the arbiter of such things.
Yea, I can kind of relate...
My current worry though is that people are increasingly couching any disagreement in systems of beliefs as being a matter of Good and Evil.
This really tickles my cynical bones, and makes me very distrustful of anyone who claim to be either Good or Evil.
Thusly my reaction to hearing such is often...
Yeeeeep.
It gets to the point where we can't even use "does/does not follow basic instructions" as a metric without a hurricane of excuses/accusations.
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Nobody Told Me Is Was, "Remind NobodysHome Why He's Retiring From GMing Again" Week
Monday-Wednesday: Bacon Boy sent me an e-mail asking, "I'm thinking of a custom Greater TrueStrike spell. What level would it be?"
As TrueStrike, except if you successfully hit the hit is automatically a confirmed critical
I immediately responded, "11", hoping he'd take the hint.
Instead, I got the usual, "No, seriously. All I want is a spell that auto-crits. What level would that be?"
So I responded, "Show me a single example of a trait, feat, class ability, racial ability, or monster ability that auto-crits on any hit, and we can talk. You may use any source published by Paizo."
He got all huffy and offended and gave me the good old, "I was only asking!"
Considering that in my retirement e-mail I specifically said I was tired of arguing rules and rules lawyering with players, I don't know what else he expected.
Friday: Whingey Wizard joins in.
To which my standard reply is, "So, if you have a friend of 13 years and he plays a game in a way you don't like, you dump him? Interesting. So... how many friends do you have at the moment? Just wondering..."
So to put his play style in context: In Kingmaker he demanded to be a noble who was on good terms with most of the other nobility in the region, plus friends with all the local fae, "for roleplaying purposes". I out-and-out refused, and explained that such a background would negatively impact the campaign. We went back and forth for months as the campaign progressed. When, at the end of Book 1, he still hadn't backed down, I ended the campaign and stopped GM'ing for him.
GothBard took over, and it was similar: He played the outcast son of a Shoanti shaman, not to return to his tribe on pain of death. But of course, the moment he decided he needed something (in this case an army), he went running back to the tribe and demanded they help us because "it only makes sense". GothBard had enough restraint not to have him and the rest of the party executed on the spot. It was a mistake on her part.
In Crimson Throne I went ahead and let him play a Jeggare, for reasons known to those who play Crimson Throne. After he swore up and down that he was only doing it for roleplaying, right out of the gate, session 1: "Well, if I'm a female member of a noble family, I'd obviously have bodyguards, right? It only makes sense!"
Yes, he's one of THOSE players. "We're saving the town right now! They wouldn't charge us for gear! They'd give us everything they own, including the shirts off their backs, because we're saving them! It only makes sense!"
She proceeded to rampage through Crimson Throne, managing to offend an archduke of Ustalav and the entire Arkona family, while ruthlessly taking advantage of every NPC she met, then trying to buy things on the family's line of credit not once but TWICE, insisting that the head of the mage academy assist her in treason against the queen (it only makes sense!), etc.
Imagine my delight as I slowly played out all the NPC scenarios in the background as he played his usual backstabby villainous monster of a PC, and at the two critical moments where he could save his family, his responses were, "If I do this for you, I assume I'll be restored as a member in good standing?", and, "What's in it for me?"
So I annihilated his family.
And now he's Googling the family name and pulling stunts like, "Oh, I had an agreement with my mother that she would never protect herself from scrying, so I Scry her to find out what's going on."
This week's? "Oh, I know xxx (a family member who's never even been to Korvosa), so I contact him to find out what's going on. He knows me. And I Scry (this other person I Googled) to find out what's going on with the other family."
The problem with running in someone else's world: Players and Google.
Feh.
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Starfinder has automatic critical hits...
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I've suddenly been inspired to revisit my Manaless Eggs deck . . . .
:D
I've heard of this deck before, but know nothing about it. How's it work?
I’m going to be playing MtG for the first time in months tomorrow, with a friend, and I AM SO PSYCHED!
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Completed my first dungeon run in Hearthstone. Took three tries with Mage. I think it was interesting, but I don't know if I'll do it with the other classes.
Are there special reward cards like there were with adventures, or are dungeon runs just for the funsies?
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Well, now the s**t's going to hit the fan. He tested a lab on assignment rules. It failed. He moved on to the next lab, wherein he deleted all of those rules so they wouldn't cause errant system behavior. So I can't check what he did because he didn't stop, so we have to stop everything and do a full re-test.
Our manager is displeased.
Fails to follow basic instructions. Repeatedly. Fired. Potentially out of a cannon.
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Only thing I can think of that auto-crits in Pathfinder is coup de grace.
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Nobody Told Me Is Was, "Remind NobodysHome Why He's Retiring From GMing Again" Week
Monday-Wednesday: Bacon Boy sent me an e-mail asking, "I'm thinking of a custom Greater TrueStrike spell. What level would it be?"
As TrueStrike, except if you successfully hit the hit is automatically a confirmed criticalI immediately responded, "11", hoping he'd take the hint.
Instead, I got the usual, "No, seriously. All I want is a spell that auto-crits. What level would that be?"
So I responded, "Show me a single example of a trait, feat, class ability, racial ability, or monster ability that auto-crits on any hit, and we can talk. You may use any source published by Paizo."
I don't mean to be that guy, but...
Swashbuckler Weapon Mastery (Ex)
At 20th level, when a swashbuckler threatens a critical hit with a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon, that critical is automatically confirmed. Furthermore, the critical modifiers of such weapons increase by 1 (×2 becomes ×3, and so on).
I can't wait to hit 20th on my swash|magus. Yeah, it's crit threats, but...keen rapier makes it almost a 1-in-4, especially if you're throwing true strikes around.
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Well, while I've got a good rage on today, Graphing Calculators.
I know:
- A Chief Technical Architect at a Fortune 500 company
- An architect
- A contractor-turned-property-inspector
- A civil engineer
- A certified machinist
- A certified systems administrator
And not one of them has ever, in their entire careers, used a graphing calculator for their jobs.
And yet it's a required unit at Impus Major's school.
Why?
Because the graphing calculator companies need to generate a market somewhere, I'm sure.
(I could go massively off here, but I'm already bordering on the political, so I'll go rage on my own time...)
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I don't mean to be that guy, but...
I can't wait to hit 20th on my swash|magus. Yeah, it's crit threats, but...keen rapier makes it almost a 1-in-4, especially if you're throwing true strikes around.Swashbuckler Weapon Mastery (Ex)
At 20th level, when a swashbuckler threatens a critical hit with a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon, that critical is automatically confirmed. Furthermore, the critical modifiers of such weapons increase by 1 (×2 becomes ×3, and so on).
You're not. There are a lot of abilities where, "IF you threaten a crit, it is automatically confirmed."
I know of none that say, "If you roll a 3 and it's a hit, then it's a confirmed crit."
THAT is what Bacon Boy is asking for.
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Yeah, no. That ain't kosher, Bacon.
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....and I swear I didn't notice that pun until I'd hit submit.
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optimisation, factionalism, trap options, and the death of conversation about anything other than the rules.Which ones?I hate Magic: The Gathering so much!!i hate magic, but it is low on the scrolls of hateration. I hate that so many aspects of card games have made their way into tabletop gaming.
By factionalization, you mean edition wars and Legacy v. Vintage v. Modern, etc. arguments?
I'm with you on a lot of this stuff, but I agree with Tac -- it's all been there from the start to the best of my understanding, and I don't see how tabletop gaming could have avoided any of it regardless of other hobbies. Play a game with others, and some of them will push that game to the limit. Have someone invent a new game, have a succession of people write options for that game for decades without some sort of systematic approach for writing those options, and some of them will be traps. Give that game’s huge fanbase an internet, and they’ll talk shop until the cows come home. And of course fans of different versions will argue about which is better.
At least we have 4e now, which largely avoids issues involving optimization and trap options. :)
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NH - based on reading your campaign journals and other comments you've made, I believe I'm a far more permissive DM than you are, and *I* think Bacon Boy is asking for too much.
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Nobody Told Me Is Was, "Remind NobodysHome Why He's Retiring From GMing Again" Week
Monday-Wednesday: Bacon Boy sent me an e-mail asking, "I'm thinking of a custom Greater TrueStrike spell. What level would it be?"
As TrueStrike, except if you successfully hit the hit is automatically a confirmed criticalI immediately responded, "11", hoping he'd take the hint.
Instead, I got the usual, "No, seriously. All I want is a spell that auto-crits. What level would that be?"
So I responded, "Show me a single example of a trait, feat, class ability, racial ability, or monster ability that auto-crits on any hit, and we can talk. You may use any source published by Paizo."
He got all huffy and offended and gave me the good old, "I was only asking!"Considering that in my retirement e-mail I specifically said I was tired of arguing rules and rules lawyering with players, I don't know what else he expected.
Friday: Whingey Wizard joins in.
** spoiler omitted **...
whingey wizard.
You madcap.
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The snow is actually accumulating!
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I don't mean to be that guy, but...
I can't wait to hit 20th on my swash|magus. Yeah, it's crit threats, but...keen rapier makes it almost a 1-in-4, especially if you're throwing true strikes around.Swashbuckler Weapon Mastery (Ex)
At 20th level, when a swashbuckler threatens a critical hit with a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon, that critical is automatically confirmed. Furthermore, the critical modifiers of such weapons increase by 1 (×2 becomes ×3, and so on).
You're not. There are a lot of abilities where, "IF you threaten a crit, it is automatically confirmed."
I know of none that say, "If you roll a 3 and it's a hit, then it's a confirmed crit."
THAT is what Bacon Boy is asking for.
i would let him pull that kind of nonsense off ONCE. As in ONE TIME, EVER.
It reminds me of a weird little house rule we made in the 2nd ed days where leaving a sword in someone was an auto crit or something. Not sure why we came up with that, but it was cool at the time.
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The snow is actually accumulating!
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Well, while I've got a good rage on today, Graphing Calculators.
I know:
- A Chief Technical Architect at a Fortune 500 company
- An architect
- A contractor-turned-property-inspector
- A civil engineer
- A certified machinist
- A certified systems administratorAnd not one of them has ever, in their entire careers, used a graphing calculator for their jobs.
And yet it's a required unit at Impus Major's school.
Why?
Because the graphing calculator companies need to generate a market somewhere, I'm sure.
(I could go massively off here, but I'm already bordering on the political, so I'll go rage on my own time...)
I believe I have already gone into the calculator conundrum in schools before, but there is a long history of Texas instruments providing calculators to schools at a considerable profit.
The only people I know who ever used graphing calculators are math teachers and programmers.
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I don't mean to be that guy, but...
I can't wait to hit 20th on my swash|magus. Yeah, it's crit threats, but...keen rapier makes it almost a 1-in-4, especially if you're throwing true strikes around.Swashbuckler Weapon Mastery (Ex)
At 20th level, when a swashbuckler threatens a critical hit with a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon, that critical is automatically confirmed. Furthermore, the critical modifiers of such weapons increase by 1 (×2 becomes ×3, and so on).
You're not. There are a lot of abilities where, "IF you threaten a crit, it is automatically confirmed."
I know of none that say, "If you roll a 3 and it's a hit, then it's a confirmed crit."
THAT is what Bacon Boy is asking for.
Alternatively...allow it...and give it to every spellcaster NPC. After you TPK, just shrug and remind him he quite literally requested this.
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Oh, and just to shine some good news on this otherwise-angry day, I get to keep the duck.
And the pocketknife.
But I'm more excited about the duck.
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optimisation, factionalism, trap options, and the death of conversation about anything other than the rules.Which ones?I hate Magic: The Gathering so much!!i hate magic, but it is low on the scrolls of hateration. I hate that so many aspects of card games have made their way into tabletop gaming.By factionalization, you mean edition wars and Legacy v. Vintage v. Modern, etc. arguments?
I'm with you on a lot of this stuff, but I agree with Tac -- it's all been there from the start to the best of my understanding, and I don't see how tabletop gaming could have avoided any of it regardless of other hobbies. Play a game with others, and some of them will push that game to the limit. Have someone invent a new game, have a succession of people write options for that game for decades without some sort of systematic approach for writing those options, and some of them will be traps. Give that game’s huge fanbase an internet, and they’ll talk shop until the cows come home. And of course fans of different versions will argue about which is better.
At least we have 4e now, which largely avoids issues involving optimization and trap options. :)
no, not edition wars, I mean factionalism. Like people being stupid because someone likes the wrong clan or something.
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Well, while I've got a good rage on today, Graphing Calculators.
I know:
- A Chief Technical Architect at a Fortune 500 company
- An architect
- A contractor-turned-property-inspector
- A civil engineer
- A certified machinist
- A certified systems administratorAnd not one of them has ever, in their entire careers, used a graphing calculator for their jobs.
And yet it's a required unit at Impus Major's school.
Why?
Because the graphing calculator companies need to generate a market somewhere, I'm sure.
(I could go massively off here, but I'm already bordering on the political, so I'll go rage on my own time...)
They are horrible for how much computing you get for the price. I did like making pretty pictures with the equations when bored.
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I've suddenly been inspired to revisit my Manaless Eggs deck . . . .
:D
I've heard of this deck before, but know nothing about it. How's it work?
I’m going to be playing MtG for the first time in months tomorrow, with a friend, and I AM SO PSYCHED!
I'm horrible at math, though, so my homebrew build is worse-than-sketchy. I just like the idea. :)
Tools of the Trade:
Killshot Card Options -- Tendrils of Agony, Grapeshot, Empty the Warrens + Goblin War Strike, Brain Freeze
Free Mana Card Options -- Lotus Petal, Simian Spirit Guide; arguments can be made for Lotus Bloom and (I think, but it's super-old) Elvish Spirit Guide, but the former has a critical 3-turn delay, and ESG is green, which is off-color in the worst of ways; more on this below
Mana Acceleration -- Black: Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual; Red: Rite of Flame, Pyretic Ritual, Desperate Ritual, Seething Song; Artifact: Helm of Awakening (technically a cost reducer, but it's effective, even if it also works for your opponent
Mana Filtering Options: -- Manamorphose, Shadowblood Egg, Darkwater Egg, limited numbers of the three other egg variants, Chromatic Sphere, Chromatic Star; this is the heart of the deck, and only nominally made viable because each one of these, when cast/sacrificed, draws you a card
Card Draw Options -- Gitaxian Probe, Sleight of Hand, Think Twice, Faithless Looting, Careful Study, Peek, Opt
Safety Net Options -- Past in Flames
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The Theory
1) Use SSG or Petal to generate free mana (the Petal provides the additional benefit of increasing your storm count, while the Guide does not)
EDIT 2: If you can't get an SSG or Petal in your opening 7, might as well go to game 2, basically; play it out, but know that it's just a formality. lol
2) Rite of Flame/Dark Ritual increase storm count *and* net mana
3) Eggs/Chromatics/Manamorphose filter mana into needed colors while drawing cards (if only there was a UR egg!!!)
4) Cantrips (of which Gitaxian Probe is king 'cause it can be cast for "free" with 2 life, even if only on your turn) keep your hand full while also stocking your graveyard -- thereby making Cabal Ritual, Rite of Flame, Think Twice, and Faithless Looting stronger
5) With stockpiled mana and a high enough storm count, cast either Grapeshot or Tendrils of Agony for the kill (you'll need either 20 casts or 10 casts, respectively)
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The Truth
My build folds, and folds hard to Force of Will, Flusterstorm, Daze, and the like (which is every Legacy deck *ever*), with minimally improved chances against the typical black discard effects.
Basically, I hatched this mad plan to ask: "Do you have it?", every game, every turn 1.
And *I* still haven't gotten it right.
I know that Gerry Thompson and some others have done something similar in Modern, but those lists *do* use lands (6, maybe?), or cards to which I have zero access.
Wow. That was a wall-o'-text!!
And thank you, TS, for dragging me away from my SWEU gamedev for a bit!! :D
EDIT: And I hope you have a blast slinging the cards tomorrow!! :)
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Oh, and just to shine some good news on this otherwise-angry day, I get to keep the duck.
And the pocketknife.
But I'm more excited about the duck.
Were you expecting some fowl language?
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Nobody Told Me Is Was, "Remind NobodysHome Why He's Retiring From GMing Again" Week
Monday-Wednesday: Bacon Boy sent me an e-mail asking, "I'm thinking of a custom Greater TrueStrike spell. What level would it be?"
As TrueStrike, except if you successfully hit the hit is automatically a confirmed criticalI immediately responded, "11", hoping he'd take the hint.
Instead, I got the usual, "No, seriously. All I want is a spell that auto-crits. What level would that be?"
So I responded, "Show me a single example of a trait, feat, class ability, racial ability, or monster ability that auto-crits on any hit, and we can talk. You may use any source published by Paizo."
He got all huffy and offended and gave me the good old, "I was only asking!"Considering that in my retirement e-mail I specifically said I was tired of arguing rules and rules lawyering with players, I don't know what else he expected.
Friday: Whingey Wizard joins in.
** spoiler omitted **...
I. Am sooooo. Sorry.
Although since someone cancelled all of the game days until 2018 like a month ago, does any of it matter?
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Nobody Told Me Is Was, "Remind NobodysHome Why He's Retiring From GMing Again" Week
Monday-Wednesday: Bacon Boy sent me an e-mail asking, "I'm thinking of a custom Greater TrueStrike spell. What level would it be?"
As TrueStrike, except if you successfully hit the hit is automatically a confirmed criticalI immediately responded, "11", hoping he'd take the hint.
Instead, I got the usual, "No, seriously. All I want is a spell that auto-crits. What level would that be?"
So I responded, "Show me a single example of a trait, feat, class ability, racial ability, or monster ability that auto-crits on any hit, and we can talk. You may use any source published by Paizo."
He got all huffy and offended and gave me the good old, "I was only asking!"Considering that in my retirement e-mail I specifically said I was tired of arguing rules and rules lawyering with players, I don't know what else he expected.
Friday: Whingey Wizard joins in.
** spoiler omitted **...
Why can’t you let people have fun at the expense of everyone else? WHYYYY!!!!!!????!!!!
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I. Am sooooo. Sorry.
Although since someone cancelled all of the game days until 2018 like a month ago, does any of it matter?
Hey, hey now! I cancelled ONE day. It just happened to be the ONLY day we could play.
And it only matters because now I have to calm down and give him a coherent response.
If I ever pick up the mantle again for you guys it'll be for Strange Aeons.
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Well, while I've got a good rage on today, Graphing Calculators.
I know:
- A Chief Technical Architect at a Fortune 500 company
- An architect
- A contractor-turned-property-inspector
- A civil engineer
- A certified machinist
- A certified systems administratorAnd not one of them has ever, in their entire careers, used a graphing calculator for their jobs.
And yet it's a required unit at Impus Major's school.
Why?
Because the graphing calculator companies need to generate a market somewhere, I'm sure.
(I could go massively off here, but I'm already bordering on the political, so I'll go rage on my own time...)
Don't get me started.
I rarely got less than an A in any subject in school. My one F was in Trig/Calc because I was not going to ask my dad for the money for the calculator for one stupid semester when we were living on dried beans and pasta. So I couldn't do the homework. I was just trying to guess.And I was too ashamed to tell the teacher we couldn't afford it.
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...I don't know why the children in the hallway are yelling about the Illuminati, and I don't want to know.
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...I don't know why the children in the hallway are yelling about the Illuminati, and I don't want to know.
I wouldn't mind knowing.
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Nobody Told Me Is Was, "Remind NobodysHome Why He's Retiring From GMing Again" Week
Monday-Wednesday: Bacon Boy sent me an e-mail asking, "I'm thinking of a custom Greater TrueStrike spell. What level would it be?"
As TrueStrike, except if you successfully hit the hit is automatically a confirmed criticalI immediately responded, "11", hoping he'd take the hint.
Instead, I got the usual, "No, seriously. All I want is a spell that auto-crits. What level would that be?"
So I responded, "Show me a single example of a trait, feat, class ability, racial ability, or monster ability that auto-crits on any hit, and we can talk. You may use any source published by Paizo."
He got all huffy and offended and gave me the good old, "I was only asking!"Considering that in my retirement e-mail I specifically said I was tired of arguing rules and rules lawyering with players, I don't know what else he expected.
I am far from unsympathetic to any GM who GMs for difficult players, but I can see where Bacon Boy might have legitimately expected a different response and I would not call this rules lawyering. He told you he wants to research a custom spell, which is an act of creativity, and then asked you what level it would be.
To which you replied “Find me a rules precedent.” Which, I see why you might want that, but if anything that’s what I’d call rules lawyering – turning a creative process into a wild goose chase for a rule.
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Oh, and just to shine some good news on this otherwise-angry day, I get to keep the duck.
And the pocketknife.
But I'm more excited about the duck.
But I had plans! For a smart phone powered dildo called the Periscoping Duck I thought you'd want to invest in!