Fellow Matherines.
>does really needlessly complex thing the hard way, 'cause I'm a doofus sometimes<
Fires off several fresh cow pies toward Florida.
Watch out, boss, he's speaking in tongues!!
Hey! This is a-political! I mean, FFT does have politics, in it, but I mea-
Fellow Matherines.
WAT! Guys, I'm not talkin' 'bou-
Yes. Yes he is.We're gonna need a LOT more Cow Pies!!!!
Hey!
*dodges more pies*
We don't need more, there's a metric ton of cows here, already-
Time is never a kind mistress.
But Mistress MATHS is a stone-cold B!@#$
I mean,... EVIL! EEEEEEEEEE-VILLE!
;P
Hey! You take that back! It's necessary for everyday lif-
EEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVIIIIILLLLLL!!!!!
Oh yeah?! Well in my opinion Sponge Bob is evil!
...maths...So, you made me waste a bit of time on this one, and now I'm determined to figure out what's going on.
It's easy to show via dozens of examples that if (roundup)(N/c+1) = k, then b is ALWAYS k.
And of course then you get that the nth term is N + nk, so of course for that b=(N+nk)/(c+n), and as n goes to infinity that's just k.
So the *big* issue is, "Why is that darned number always equal to k?"
I was really, really close after about 15-20 minutes, but then dinner and gaming called. It's a fun little page-long bit of algebra, but I think I have the general approach and I just need that horrible mistress known as Time to be kinder to me...
NYAHAHAHAH- I mean, yeah, I know, right?
EDIT: *grabs clothes, gets dressed as music begins to play*
In order to stave off The Madness I've taken to humming the beginning of a song and then one of the kids finishes humming it.
This, obviously, won't work for everyone.
DANG IT, CY, STOP PUTTING THAT SONG BACK IN MY HEAD
That s$+@ty job? Min wage AND only about 20 hours. Won't pay rent with that...
Landlord is evicting us cause Ohio banned foreclosure but not eviction. Cause f%%# poor people who can't buy a home.
We can't even afford a moving van to move in with Tala's mom back in Florida for free rent.
We are boned.
Holy frickin' crap, VE. I'm so sorry! That's awful!
You got a plan?
Shiro put forth this interesting little bit:
There are 3 types of people: "older - didn't really notice a change, has a cupboard... and it's full. Can go months without care"... + "Middle - lives week to week, shops at least 1x every week, has no real stored anything, is impacted by the PITA situation but makes due with what's there."
And the last... "I shop 5x a week, eat out every night, have NO stored anything, have no way to judge what I actually NEED for a week as I've never actually done things that way... so I buy everything I can find and put it in my living room".And it explained the hoarding really well. I hate to shop. So I go to Costco once every two months, buy $600 worth of stuff, and stuff all my pantry, garage freezer, and cabinets with TP, paper towels, and frozen food just so I don't have to shop again. Then I go to the corner store 2-3 times a week to get fresh vegetables and anything I wouldn't buy at Costco.
But for people who've never actually had to PLAN their shopping, this is indeed the apocalypse.
Kind of interesting.
You're kind of like me, then.
Or, rather, I guess in this case, I'm kind of like you: I don't like to shop, but we go through perishables at a much faster rate. I tend to hit Publix (no Cost Co here, but there's a SAM's club; unfortunately they're not really close enough or on-the-way enough to be the reliable place we go, and if you're not going there as often, it often isn't worth it), and end up acquiring large long-term stocks of non-perishable but definitely-gonna-need-it things (though, unfortunately this does mean that there's usually a set of paper towel rolls and set of toilet paper rolls in their container that live in our living room - not like we were gonna use that space, though, and it is cheaper), and then continue shopping for more perishable at a more sustainable rate (so our food doesn't go bad before we can eat it).
So this has been a little bit of up and down for us. My wife took over the shopping since the thing hit (my immune system suuuuuuuuuuuucks; also I had a fever just when the US started going, "hhhheeeeyyyy, maybe we should... not... be... going... out?" and/or hoarding started) and she's just been resupplying the things that aren't hoarded.
We've been doing well, though she was worried that our TP stock might run out (depending on hoarding flow - it wasn't the most recent trip, and I'd been planning for one before taking sick), but we've been good so far. Also her parents sent us a nice care-package with a few extra rolls of TP they somehow miraculously came across (they did the same for her brother and his wife), so even though we weren't in current trouble, it's nice to have that extra backup.
...worries about looters...
Heh. Nice.
wait, you haven't seen my in-laws around your house, recently, right
Your dad's brain makes me want Nervous Breakdown Peeps Chili.Oh good, I'm not only one who gets that compulsion.
STOP MAKING ME WANT FOOD THAT I CAN'T EAT
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Boss is pissing me off today...more so than usual.
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Office chair arrived and has been assembled. I can sit at a desk like an actual grown-up to do school stuff now.
BAH! GROWN UP?! FIE! Office chairs are lam-
CHAIR RACES!!!!
(Yes, there's nothing like being a grad student grading 800 finals at 1:00 am on cold pizza and flat beer, and all deciding that it's time to have chair races/jousts all over the 6th floor of the math building.)
OH SNAP, YEAH, I'M IN-
The races will be difficult as the chair is at home, where I am self-isolating alone.
Oh. Nevermind.
There's only one way to settle this, a race across the country!... D'oh!
Stop taunting me!
Unsurprisingly, Tiny T-Rex's Fortnite matches have largely become a series of dance offs with other people.
I approve.
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Reply from a conversation TOZ mentioned.
Seriously though if anyone likes mildly spooky stuff, The Magnus Archives podcast is totally great!
Also Re:Zero hurts me. Subaru is so dumb.
... you're REAL?
I thought you were an abscondi-cave/absinthe based hallucination!
Reply from a conversation TOZ mentioned.
Seriously though if anyone likes mildly spooky stuff, The Magnus Archives podcast is totally great!
Also Re:Zero hurts me. Subaru is so dumb.
NO! THAT'S NOT TRUE!! IT'S IM'POSS'IBLE!!11!!
(It's true, he really is. Like a brick.)
These two years away from my family have shown me how important they are.
For our daughter, because both our families are there, and family support is so helpful in parenting, we are planning on moving back to Florida when we can afford it. We're already searching for jobs and apartments.
The things you do for your kids that you NEVER would have done before...
(Btw for those wondering, she eats like a voracious milk gobbling monster, is healthy as all get out, and looks more like me than her mom with each day.)
MAN-SQUEEEEEEEE
wuv and hugs from a weirdo over the interneeeeet, Vagrant Infantite~!
Yeah. Unfortunately, congratulations on understanding how important the support is.
Apologies for having to go back to Florida.
Hey! ... yeah, that's fair.
Yeah...I know. If I could just convince *everyone else* to move.
I mean. Maybe if you paid enough... but... on the other hand... we do have so much swamp... and mosquitos... and cow poop... and hurricanes... no, it'd have to be a really big payment...
(A bunch of Abbott & Costello movies, a lot of Three Stooges,
That's a lot of my kidhood stuff. Well, spiced with Lone Ranger, Zorro, John Wayne, and similar fair!
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Actively keeping from grinding my teeth together. If he comes at me with one more baseless accusation I am going to lose it.
We moved back to Wisconsin from Seattle to be closer to family.
It was worth it for us.
Yeah, It is.
After Katrina, we lived with my family in Oklahoma for a year, then went on our own in Florida. Was not 'bad'*, we both had decent jobs, but my family was in Oklahoma, and hers was still in Louisiana, and Florida is SO FRIGGIN EXPENSIVE to live in,... we moved back to Louisiana after 1 year, close enough to be near her family, but WAY out of the fish bowl that is New Orleans! ;P
(*= by 'Not bad' I mean that when we moved TO Florida, I had a zero balance on my credit card, and a bank account full of money from insurance payments from Katrina. 12 months later we moved, My bank account was empty, and I finished maxing out my (not tiny) credit card to pay for the moving truck and the down payment for the new apartment.) ;P
Florida. Is. Expensive. O_o
... what I'm saying is all y'all should give me money.
EDIT: Oh good! I made the edit window! TO BE CLEAR: please don't give me money. I am not asking for this. The above was a joke. I don't know how this text wasn't here originally, and I thought this disclaimer was here, but then when it wasn't I thought I'd edited it into here, and then that proved untrue, so here's hoping this one sticks, somehow.
How I got a Boyz 2 Men melody in my head is beyond me.
You were alive and in the US at some point in the 90s. Look, these things happen from time to time. We just made a pact to never talk about it and move on.
Or you know, whatever it is they did to make teenage girls lose it whenever they appeared.How I got a Boyz 2 Men melody in my head is beyond me.Boyz 2 Men had melodies?!?
O_o
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They're non-threatening!Or you know, whatever it is they did to make teenage girls lose it whenever they appeared.How I got a Boyz 2 Men melody in my head is beyond me.Boyz 2 Men had melodies?!?
O_o
LOLOL. My reply (that I didn't post) only had three words beyond that.
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we have Littles.
And don't forget house hippos!
They're non-threatening!Or you know, whatever it is they did to make teenage girls lose it whenever they appeared.How I got a Boyz 2 Men melody in my head is beyond me.Boyz 2 Men had melodies?!?
O_o
LOLOL. My reply (that I didn't post) only had three words beyond that.
** spoiler omitted **
Well, I mean. You're not-wrong!
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What's really interesting me is watching the psyches of the people around us. I'd love to ask which people are native Californian (by nature extremely laid back) and which people have moved here so I could study it, but we're seeing three types of people:
(1) "We're all in this together, so let's at least be civilized to each other."
I am happy to report that this is the vast majority of people I run into, especially the residents in the Berkeley hills. They smile, they say, "Hi," and we have across-the-street conversations. We cheerfully make way for each other, and thank each other for doing so.
(2) "*I'm* the only one who should be outside! How dare you intrude upon my space?"
There are an amazing number of people at the corner store whom I've never seen before who get really peeved with you just for being in the store. And if you dare to say, "Hi!" to other people, you're a monster. Their negative vibes are appalling, and they lash out at all around them irrationally.
I put Freehold's boss into this category: "I am afraid, and I am not rational enough to realize that I am afraid, so I'm lashing out irrationally at anyone and everyone around me in a manner that makes them all hate me."
(3) "The virus doesn't exist."
*SIGH* Yes, even around here we have a handful of people who ignore social distancing etiquette, look at you askew if you try to stay away from them, and otherwise pretend absolutely nothing is happening.
At least I can intellectually understand the lashers. The, "We're going to utterly ignore this," group is just beyond me.
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Hey, John! Hey, Vany!
RE: "people" -- Surprising as it may be, I can be a little gracious. From time to time. Besides -- folks in this corner of the 'net tend to be of . . . 'higher quality'. Or is that too generous?
Anywho!
I live in the middle of nowhere, and am 'essential personnel', so things are still very much the same for me, apart from the nearby grocery stores putting hard limits on what you can buy in what quantity per day. That, and not really being able to go visit my girlfriend, as it's a long-distance thing.
But, all in all -- I'm good!
Glad to hear it!
I also feel like I missed someone who posted recently somewhere in the last several pages that I hadn't seen in a while, and I was super-happy and ready to talk to you, and... I'm really sorry.
I thought I'd had a tab open to reply to you, but... uh... it's gone. It was good seeing you! I... I don't remember who I was talking to...
(And right now, my computer has decided that if I open [i]one more flippin' tab...!)
>.>
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Wisconsin is infested with 3. Madisonians fall into 1 and 2 (west side is casual east side are not, weird how it seperates like that).
Geez, there is nothing like sitting in on an SR Analysis call to make you truly pity anyone in support.
Presenter: So, as you see, in 86% of service requests the customer did not actually bother to check the documentation or take the training, but just filed a service request the moment they had a question.
Docs/Training: Is there anything we can do to help?
Presenter: We checked your training. We followed the links. We checked your docs. You have step-by-step examples of everything they asked about. You provide training that has them do hands-on labs on what they asked about. Your content is complete and accurate and would have answered their questions. But they're not bothering to go to it.
Docs/Training: So what can we do?
Presenter: We're going to dev and asking them to embed your links directly in the application.So if you ever wonder why your application page has little help links next to every single field on every single page, now you know.
Oh! Then why aren't those little green men from Hyrule with the sword and whatnot are everywhere! And what's all this blue text?!
(That's... that's what office people think like, right? Right? I mean, I worked in an office, once, and I think that literally every time, so that's gotta be how it works...)
Third shift is getting real tricky to find something for lunch. everything closes at 8 now with the exception of dominoes. I can only eat that so may times tho. I guess I'll go back to packing lunches. I just have to fight off the old people that are in the grocery store buying out everything first thing in the morning. I should start carrying around a metal cane so I can use it as a club when necessary.
They do have a lot of great sandwiches, but, yeah, there's only so much of expensive food to go around. But! At least it saves you -
I've always brought food to work with me. No point in wasting money on delivery.
Right, I was ninja'd, like, however many pages this was ago.
That assumes he has PayPal connected to that e-mail. I have multiple e-mails and only one of them is PayPalish.Why don't you just PayPal him, since you have his email address?And while I understand that LONG emails are a pain to read, I really don't understand people who fail to read even three-sentence emails.
NobodysHome: Hey, haircut guy! I've cancelled my April 10 appointment, but I'd like to pay you for it anyway. What's your address?
Haircut Guy: OK, thanks! See you in May!
It's more that I learned in the Christmas fiasco of 2018(?) that many people don't like gifts foisted upon them without their permission/approval. So if I say, "Hey, give me your address and I'll send you money," and he ignores that statement, I am going to make the assumption that sending him the money anyway might offend him, so I won't. (He got both a text and an email with the offer, so I figure I've done due diligence.)
Yeah, to me, that socially reads more like a, "I don't want to turn him down, 'cause it's really nice, and I don't want to hurt his feelings, but I absolutely don't feel comfortable for accepting money for work I don't do." situation.
Oooooooooooorrrr he could be like me and have juuuust enough ADD to actually just kind of bounce around the email page, until he manages to zero in on the first sentence or two long enough to discern relevant information because DAGGUM CAN I JUST STOP READING EMAIL THIS IS TORTURE THIS IS INHUMANE AAAAGGGHHHH
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And yes, these are the same parents currently visiting grandkids and in laws via plane during a pandemic.
I doubt it will help. I really doubt it.
And, absolutely, I understand the difficulty in approaching aaaanything like anything like this with your family.
But, if it helps:
- my family and I are exceptionally conservative by most every metric
- my parents not only voted for the current President (though they have been vocal in that they have never approved of his morality as an individual and has stressed this to their children and any who listen)
- my father was a pastor in highly conservative churches for 21 years, and a missionary ever since (and when missionary organizations would not go to the countries that we wanted to for various reasons, he created his own just so we could get copies of the Bible to people who didn't have them: this has turned into a system of helping destitute children in over a dozen countries with various medicine and education systems, generally run by someone local, so the needs of the area are met and it's not Scint's moving situation a buncha people from far away saying, "You need whatever I happen to have, take this!"
- I wasn't allowed Pokemon because "evolution," (this was later undone once they realized what was really happening) and I wasn't allowed "Role Playing Games" because "Satan" (video games were okay)
- I could go on, but I feel that this is enough; also I don't want a battle of any sort, or ill-feelings towards people I absolutely respect and admire. My parents are about the best human beings - if they have flaws, it's the kind that are common unto all men (though their specific ones, again like everyone, are uniquely their own), but they are still good people.
This, of course, may absolutely not be enough, but it's a fairly solid pedigree for being Conservative, as such things go.
(And, yes, they still use Fox News.)
They have opted to remain home in quarantine without seeing the family during this time. They have done so for a number of reasons, but top of the list is that they do not, in any way, wish to do something that could harm the long-term good of their children. I am relieved because I do not, in any way, want to do something that could harm the long-term good of my parents. They even cancelled several family trips to ensure the safety of all.
This probably won't help. And you probably can't bring it up - and I do not feel that you are wrong if you can't. But on that off chance that maybe, just maybe, it does, you have my offer of support and encouragement to explain this.
Because we are fighting a disease that targets older people, and is effectively tailor made to infect folks who spend time together in sealed and recycled conditions.
You cannot and will not control others, and, again, I'm certain this will never be brought up to them, but it's here in case it helps.
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Wow,
I skip reading for like, ONE busy day, and like 3-4 FULL pages to catch up on!!
You all all type like I talk! :)
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Wow,
I skip reading for like, ONE busy day, and like 3-4 FULL pages to catch up on!!You all all type like I talk! :)
It's just me complaining about stuff.
SOME cranky old man's gotta do it, and you're nowhere near cranky enough!
;-)
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Our Florida office closed.Ugh, the Florida jokes, I mean every time-
They were 99% remote anyway, and the few people that were in that satellite office just picked up their equipment and took it home. We have no IT personnel that are even living in Florida to help, but again, they were basically already set up for this very situation due to hurricane prep.Oh! That's actually quite a nice thing to say! You know, I think we really should all be nicer about states, and maybe realize that you can't lump everyone together under a single monolith, no matter what sort of trends (or stereotypes based on them) might say-
Our Virginia office is just now starting to think about sending people home. There's no on-site IT there either.
I dread where this one might be going.
HAW-HAW, LOOKIT THE VUR-JIN-IYANS, WHAT A LUUUZER STATE FUR LUUUZERZ
Ahem ahem, I notice that they didn't select a Florida resident to travel across the limitless gulph of space to become Jeddak of Jeddaks and Supreme Warlord of the Red Planet...
(And goodness knows what havoc Florida Man might have wrought amongst the banths and Tharks...)
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Your dad's brain makes me want Nervous Breakdown Peeps Chili.Oh good, I'm not only one who gets that compulsion.STOP MAKING ME WANT FOOD THAT I CAN'T EAT
(for the sake of all those nearby - I'm socially conscious)
If you disagree with everything else I say, trust me on these two things:
1) Please do not make Chidi's peeps chili.
b) Absolutely do not eat Chidi's peeps chili.
*SIGH*. And in actual gaming news, cue stereotypical GM reactions:
NobodysHome: I like this first section of Strange Aeons Book 5, but flying PCs will skip the entire thing.
Other GMs: Throw in dragons! Bad guys with net guns! Teach them a lesson!Y'know, maybe, just maybe, punishing my PCs for using a spell from the Core Rulebook for its intended purpose isn't my cup of tea?
I was more complaining that I was going to have to throw out a section with some interesting NPCs than looking for a solution that involved, "Shoot them out of the sky for daring to fly in your campaign!"
The section itself fails anyway. "Day 2: This happens. Day 9: This happens. Day 11: Word finally reaches the council and they decide to do xxx. Day 13: The council acts..."
When the entire journey is 4 hours by flight, making a storyline like that fit the actual situation involves rewriting it almost from scratch, so it's:
(1) Punish the PCs for actually using the spells they have available to them.
(2) Rewrite a section of the AP to take this flight into account.Y'know, no. I'm just going to let it play out naturally and see what happens tonight.
I recently had the anguish of having one of my story-lines or concepts cut short because of other stuff the players chose and/or did.
I ended up not actually having to cut that content that I'd wanted to add ("It's my content for me!") namely because the way things worked out allowed me to put it in at the same time as (and thus in opposition to) the player-made plans.
Ended up being better than I'd planned because it made a fantastic moral dilemma (), and it has worked out wonderfully. One character in particular - it was her brother and niece who were taken - really stepped up; dialed up her personal rival*, humbled herself** and made some of the most intense "social" and "business" checks I've ever seen in a game*** , allowed for fantastic character development, and they proceeded onward to a better encounter, the question of "what is happening in that other thing" still weighing on their mind. Worked perfectly, really.
Far, far better than my lame initial plan of introducing some new bad-guy/rival as part of a side-story that no one would likely care about later. I mean new bad-guy/rival (not the one they contacted) is still going to be introduced here, anyway, naturally: my only question as a GM was whether or not to introduce said entity as a bonus character in the party's plot, or as someone unseen (yet) on the side they hired folks to take care of.
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They're non-threatening!Or you know, whatever it is they did to make teenage girls lose it whenever they appeared.How I got a Boyz 2 Men melody in my head is beyond me.Boyz 2 Men had melodies?!?
O_o
LOLOL. My reply (that I didn't post) only had three words beyond that.
** spoiler omitted **
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(3) "The virus doesn't exist."
*SIGH* Yes, even around here we have a handful of people who ignore social distancing etiquette, look at you askew if you try to stay away from them, and otherwise pretend absolutely nothing is happening.At least I can intellectually understand the lashers. The, "We're going to utterly ignore this," group is just beyond me.
I am surprised we haven't heard about one of those being shot in one of stand-your-ground states. Yet.
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Wow,
I skip reading for like, ONE busy day, and like 3-4 FULL pages to catch up on!!You all all type like I talk! :)
It's just me complaining about stuff.
SOME cranky old man's gotta do it, and you're nowhere near cranky enough!
;-)
Out of the way with those complaints, Old Timer! Leave space for complaints to those who have still some life and complaining about it before them!
Apparently Freehold is planning to murder me, so I'm in hiding...Which is 100% the reason every time someone tells me that teachers only work 9 months a year I am sorely tempted to punch them in the face. I have resisted... so far...Go for it. All other teachers will feel the psychick releaseAh, but you have an advantage.
As Freehold approaches with the murder weapon, you simply have to say, "Gothbard, what are you doing out of hiding? And dressed like a goth milkmaid?!"
Thus, you can escape/counterattack.
Just got a really nice email from my hair guy, saying, "I don’t feel it is right to receive compensation without giving a service during this pandemic."
So yep. Glad I stayed my hand.
Just ask LM. I can be taught. It just takes a while.
Hey! I called it!
(Most people aren't quite as eMaIl-AvErSe as I am.)
Our Florida office closed.Ugh, the Florida jokes, I mean every time-
They were 99% remote anyway, and the few people that were in that satellite office just picked up their equipment and took it home. We have no IT personnel that are even living in Florida to help, but again, they were basically already set up for this very situation due to hurricane prep.Oh! That's actually quite a nice thing to say! You know, I think we really should all be nicer about states, and maybe realize that you can't lump everyone together under a single monolith, no matter what sort of trends (or stereotypes based on them) might say-
Our Virginia office is just now starting to think about sending people home. There's no on-site IT there either.
I dread where this one might be going.
HAW-HAW, LOOKIT THE VUR-JIN-IYANS, WHAT A LUUUZER STATE FUR LUUUZERZ
Ahem ahem, I notice that they didn't select a Florida resident to travel across the limitless gulph of space to become Jeddak of Jeddaks and Supreme Warlord of the Red Planet...
(And goodness knows what havoc Florida Man might have wrought amongst the banths and Tharks...)
Hey! ... just because some naked dude on coke from Miami really believes he can jumpGood(tm) doesn't mean he actually can.
(We're more built for swimming* 'round here, and Mars, as you may have noticed, is a desert. So.)
Your dad's brain makes me want Nervous Breakdown Peeps Chili.Oh good, I'm not only one who gets that compulsion.STOP MAKING ME WANT FOOD THAT I CAN'T EAT
(for the sake of all those nearby - I'm socially conscious)If you disagree with everything else I say, trust me on these two things:
1) Please do not make Chidi's peeps chili.
b) Absolutely do not eat Chidi's peeps chili.
Look. It can't be so overly sweet as to match US mayo, I don't care how many disgustingly colored and somehow-worse-consistency marshmellows he puts in there.
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I've decided to start teaching myself to sew while I've become stuck at home.
Which means I need to get some math-related things because geometry is a bigger factor in that than I realized.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOThey fixed that in 2nd edition.
No more random monster tables.
I'm with FDH, here.
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My personal experience with 'random' encounters is that they aren't.By that I mean I incorporate the encounters I want to run to help move the narrative without railroading the players to the end goal as best as possible.
If that only means none, one, or two different encounters for a given day, sobeit.
For me, it's not really about the road or even the number of encounters they get, but for giving a rough facsimile of the nature and commonality of things in the world for narrative immersion purposes.
I mean, I know it's a game, and I know you know it's a game, but if it feels more like a real world to me, when I describe it I can cast it more like a real world to you, too, which can (but, as with all things, does not necessarily) help make a better story and play experience.
For me, random encounter tables help me do that.
That said...
It's not about the amount of grind, it's about the fun play experience and telling a neat story.
Of course, when I'm running I tend to go with 'milestone' type leveling -- it helps cut down on all the math considerably and seems a great deal more 'fluid' and 'reasonable' for the entire party versus one player getting more exp than someone else because they did good on a side-job or whatnot.
I do this, too, and, at some point, I end up cutting random encounter tables, because, honestly, a lot of groups I run for just aren't in it for that.
That said, grinding aside (to a limited extent), as a conceptual element (specific exceptions apply) om video games (which directly descend from TT), I much prefer the random (or, more accurately, semi-random: ala CT) encounter structure to be applied in video games, compare to all-scripted battles all the time - for the same reason.
I'm not a fan of all hallways all the time, and "always this dude at this spot" gameplay as a general concept. Sometimes it might be fine, but in general... nnnnnnnnot my cuppa.
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I don't know why but for some reason I was thinking captain didn't care for 2nd edition initially. I think I might be thinking of someone else now tho.
Pretty sure he's loved it since day one.
(I don't think he was happy with the moving up of the timeline, though.)
((Of course, I could just let him speak for himself, instead of speculating on him when he's right there, but if I did that I'd just not be as arrogant and presumptuous and self-righteous, and, I mean, come on: that's just iconic me, at this point!))
Me: "Would you like anything to eat for dinner?"
Son: "What are my choices?"
Me: "Yes or no."
I tell this one! Every day.
(It's not a joke.)
I am soooo using that later.Me: "Would you like anything to eat for dinner?"
Son: "What are my choices?"
Me: "Yes or no."
every day
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Things NobodysHome Never Thought He'd Be Asked To Do #4238:
Send my mother-in-law a care package of toilet paper because both Amazon and all of her local stores are still sold out.
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Things NobodysHome Never Thought He'd Be Asked To Do #4238:
Send my mother-in-law a care package of toilet paper because both Amazon and all of her local stores are still sold out.
I just had a friend stop by to visit that lives in a town 50 miles away because we're by the only grocery store he could find with toilet paper in stock.
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we have Littles.And don't forget house hippos!
Hey, Feros! Nice to see you!
Yeah. I once sat in on a game where they did standard exp and if you died you started over at level 1 so two 12th level 1 7th and 1 first level. It was one of the worst games I ever had the misfortune of watching. The 1st barb went through a door that was meant for one of the 12ths and was instantly disintegrated. So he had to make another character right after making that one. The other weird thing is it was a ship battle and the guy took 20 minutes to roll for every single npc involved in the battle.
I was so glad I wasn't playing because I was frustrated enough just from watching.
That sounds like my (very limited) understanding of the exceptionally old-school way of playing.
(Of course, I never played anything older than 3rd without exceptionally heavy house rules, and never owned any books before then, so I really wouldn't know.)
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I haven't seen something quite that bad, but I did play in a group that did individual XP, and the GM would randomly grant extra XP to people when he felt like it (which sucked, several times I used cleverness and non-combat skills to find interesting ways around dangers and got nothing, but someone else might score a lucky crit to kill a big guy and get 500 extra XP for it). If you died, you came back at the same level as the lowest in the party, but at minimum XP for that level (so if the lowest level was 7, you came back at the minimum XP for 7th level even if they were nearly 8th). Eventually we ended the campaign because the levels were too spread out to work together. It was something like 15,15,12,11,9,9,7,7,6. The guy at 6th level hardly ever showed up, but if you died you started back at 6th because he was technically still in the group.
That's one of those things where it sounds like the GM was all, "WOW! Okay, so this is a really cool idea where it actually makes death mean something, you know? Yeah - good stories - not just some speed bump in the road that you rebound from immediately. But! Lower levels pro'bly get XP fast, so it'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiine-!" and then, however long later, "This is fine. I'm fine. We're all fine. I'm fine with this. Everything is fine. Totally fine." because admitting otherwise would mean that a mistake was made somewhere, and that could threaten the current identity that has had so much put into it until now, never mind that we, for some reason, have stopped living up to our own core values for an increasingly obscure political agen-
-oh, uh, sorry, Fritzy, I didn't see you there.
But, I mean, it's one of those things I think I could see as someone legitimately thinking was a great idea - and, as a story-telling tool it kind of looks like a "great" compromise between "real consequences" and "playability"... it just isn't, because, extra XP or not, there's not enough in the world, and it just bogs everything down.