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DontMockMySmock posted:Where's this table from? Hackmaster? That's my guess because I am desperately hoping that this is a parody. My guess is FATAL.
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Gotta be FATAL. It's the only system I know of that features this kind of 90s death metal descriptiveness and this kind of granularity in deciding precisely which gruesome event results with no actual variance in the mechanical effects.
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Sep 18, 2016 18:05
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Looks like FATAL to me. It's got that combo of being needlessly descriptive, obsessed with genital harm, and generally grimdark and edgy.
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Sep 18, 2016 18:09
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Colonel Cool posted:My guess is FATAL. Five points to Gryffindor!
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Sep 18, 2016 19:45
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The most meta fun had with 3.5 was watching an engineer and physicist have an absolute ball calculating just exactly how flying sorcerers firing cones at downward angles worked  
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Sep 18, 2016 20:53
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https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Peasant_Railgunquote:Hire a ton of peasants; let's just say that it is two thousand two hundred and eighty. Line them up in single file; this will form a chain of peasants two miles long. It'd have been four miles back in MY day (witness me hiking up my 2nd Edition suspenders).
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Sep 18, 2016 21:04
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By the rules, the last peasant just ends up holding the pole. He can throw it but only for as far as his crappy strength score allows. It's even dumber than sticking your head in a bucket of water to start drowning because that resets your hit points to zero up from whatever hundreds in the negatives you went while in a deathless frenzy. Amusingly enough I don't think the rules actually say you stop drowning once you get your head above the surface. You die regardless whether you remain submerged or not.
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Sep 18, 2016 21:52
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Poil posted:By the rules, the last peasant just ends up holding the pole. He can throw it but only for as far as his crappy strength score allows. Yeah, Peasant Railgun will always be the lamest RAW concept because by its own rules lawyer basis it doesn't matter since velocity isn't a measured factor for attacks. It also misses the better idea of chains of peasants connecting all cities for instant movement of goods at a rate of average peasant carrying capacity every six seconds. Revolutionize the world economy! Develop a Bag of Holding-based form of near-instant transportation! Provide employment to all those poo poo-farmers!
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Sep 18, 2016 22:36
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Dragons and other peasant-eating things will also find it very convenient. 
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Sep 18, 2016 22:37
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Poil posted:Dragons and other peasant-eating things will also find it very convenient. Just takes one round for a bag of holding'd dragon slayer squad to hit the scene! So, you know, sucks if you're the first peasant attacked, but that's the price of progress.
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Sep 18, 2016 22:42
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That's nothing, let me tell you about this ridiculous ruleset I found where the cleric can only move diagonally and a fully built brick-and-mortar castle is able to cover more distance in one round than a knight on horseback.
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Sep 18, 2016 23:39
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greatn posted:What is a Stand? I've seen lots of people using it as a proper noun lately. Imagine the super powers from the X-Men came from invisible ghosts that only other X-Men could see, and that hurting those ghosts hurt the user, and also all the powers were weirder. Because that ghost stands besides you in battle, it's called a Stand. That's Jojo. I highly recommend it.
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Sep 19, 2016 01:22
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And also imagine that the powers and indeed nearly every character was named after a music artist.
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Sep 19, 2016 01:33
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Poison Mushroom posted:Emphasis mine. I know it's a typo, but I'm just imagining some poor schmuck being stuck stumbling and on fire for 1-3 years, burning continuously until they keel over. That would make for an amazingly dark and ridiculous setting. Imagine your town is menaced by a Flaming Screamer. You've watched him stumbling toward your town for months. Several farms had to be evacuated and the fields tilled under to prevent wildfire. The battle that created this monstrosity was 11 and a half months ago, so in 2 more weeks you'll know if the horror is over, or if the town will be lost when he finally bumps into the wooden palisade a month from now.  
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Sep 19, 2016 01:43
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Or you could just make him a mascot for your tavern, until some berk sets him free with a decanter of endless water. But you'd have to be barmy to do that.
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Whybird posted:That's nothing, let me tell you about this ridiculous ruleset I found where the cleric can only move diagonally and a fully built brick-and-mortar castle is able to cover more distance in one round than a knight on horseback. 
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Sep 19, 2016 02:16
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Shugojin posted:And also imagine that the powers and indeed nearly every character was named after a music artist. We called it Nirvana, because I was playing a Paladin, and it was hard to think of a good Paladin stand name.
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Sep 19, 2016 12:05
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Onmi posted:We called it Nirvana, because I was playing a Paladin, and it was hard to think of a good Paladin stand name. You missed a chance to name a Stand Holy Diver. Shameful.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:11
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Dias posted:You missed a chance to name a Stand Holy Diver. The World already exists.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:17
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Ok, I remember being vaguely aware of something called Jojo Bizarre Adventure existing like ten years ago, but lately just everywhere I look, forums, some of my favorite podcasts, there are just a ton of references to it everywhere. Did something happen to give it a huge boost in popularity?
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Sep 19, 2016 13:25
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greatn posted:Ok, I remember being vaguely aware of something called Jojo Bizarre Adventure existing like ten years ago, but lately just everywhere I look, forums, some of my favorite podcasts, there are just a ton of references to it everywhere. Did something happen to give it a huge boost in popularity? In the english speaking world? An anime adaption started in 2012.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:28
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Rygar201 posted:Yo, Real Time With Pause is trash for the garbage. If someone remade Baldur's Gate/Pillars of Eternity with as a grid based TBS, I would be alllll about it. I can barely get into BG at all though. Oh yes this. This is why toee is the best.
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Sep 19, 2016 19:06
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Onmi posted:We called it Nirvana, because I was playing a Paladin, and it was hard to think of a good Paladin stand name. Living on a Prayer, Made in Heaven, Stairway to Heaven, Faithfully, Knockin' On Heavens Door, lots if you go for song names too. Would also work for a cleric. Depending on character flavor could also go for something like It's A Hard Life, Let Us Cling Together, or You're My Best Friend. Yes I like Queen.
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Sep 19, 2016 19:18
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Battle Hymn of the Republic, John Brown's Body. There's a whole bunch.
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xanthan posted:Living on a Prayer, Made in Heaven, Stairway to Heaven, Faithfully, Knockin' On Heavens Door, lots if you go for song names too. Would also work for a cleric. Half of those are taken. 
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Journey, The Cure, Creed... Though Nirvana's not bad.
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Carrasco posted:Or you could just make him a mascot for your tavern, until some berk sets him free with a decanter of endless water. I appreciate this reference and would like to thank you for it.
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Sep 19, 2016 22:11
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Poil posted:By the rules, the last peasant just ends up holding the pole. He can throw it but only for as far as his crappy strength score allows. Yeah, the Peasant Railgun doesn't work because(unless specified) momentum and acceleration don't exist. And 3.5 is the "RAW paradise" edition. But you're wrong the last bit. You don't die regardless. In fact you never die. Only issue is you never stop drowning either.
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Cuchulain posted:Yeah, the Peasant Railgun doesn't work because(unless specified) momentum and acceleration don't exist. And 3.5 is the "RAW paradise" edition. I guess you can go hang out with the warhammer guy that's on fire for 1D3 years.
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If we're going with common sense ignorance murphies, you can add that it doesn't say Drowning actually makes you dead. Although being dead isn't that terrible of a fate. D20 SRD posted:Dead Nowhere does it say you can't continue to take actions and otherwise act normally. To take it to a more absurd degree. D20 SRD posted:Dying If you're going to be a little poo poo, you can be dying bleeding corpse, then the enemy coup de graces you. Since you are now at -10 and take on the Dead condition, you can now get back up and keep fighting, confusing the gently caress out of the guy who just killed you. Fifth Edition doesn't even have a 'Dead' condition listed. Clearly there are no restrictions attached to it. What a weak status effect to inflict. Edit: I thought this was the Murphy thread. Whooops. I guess relevant to the discussion. How about that Order of the Stick? NameHurtBrain fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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NameHurtBrain posted:
Come to think, Roy actually learned a new feat while dead. Is that normal for DnD?
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I think he learned about the feat while he was dead and then picked it at his next opportunity during a level up. I think his grandfather even said something to the effect of "It doesn't count until you put the points in".
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Sep 20, 2016 21:38
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He met the prerequisites for the feat while dead, but only acquired it upon leveling up. That's consistent with the rules and with the way thematic content can be written.
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Typical overachiever Roy, Elan already laid out with his considering taking a level in Wizard, you don't actually have to do all the legwork, just take the feat and you're considered retroactively to have been working on it all along.
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Sep 20, 2016 21:45
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Thaddius the Large posted:Typical overachiever Roy, Elan already laid out with his considering taking a level in Wizard, you don't actually have to do all the legwork, just take the feat and you're considered retroactively to have been working on it all along. Well considering that feat is unknown to everyone alive, talking to the dead somehow is the only way you could possibly learn it, retroactive implications or not.
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Bongo Bill posted:He met the prerequisites for the feat while dead, but only acquired it upon leveling up. That's consistent with the rules and with the way thematic content can be written. I remember reading someone telling a story about a game of Paranoia where that effectively happened.
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Vicissitude posted:I remember reading someone telling a story about a game of Paranoia where that effectively happened. Thanks ks for reminding me I had a brilliant idea for a Paranoia game but will never get to use it. The trouble shooters start post mission in a debriefing room and each is given a form to fill out covering what happened during the mission. The only thing the players know ahead of time is what the overall mission goal was. They have five minutes to fill it out in silence then Friend Computer reads what was written. After that the questions about the stories that don't add up start and the players have to try and connect all the dots or they get killed for treason with their clone line murdered as well.
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Len posted:Thanks ks for reminding me I had a brilliant idea for a Paranoia game but will never get to use it. In other words, Rashomon meets Paranoia?
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W.T. Fits posted:In other words, Rashomon meets Paranoia? With a dash of Always Sunny
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