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raminasi posted:I know nothing about this game’s mechanics, why was the one damage she took from each hit more of a deciding factor than the damage she was doing with each hit? NinjaDebugger posted:Because vampires can soak damage all goddamn day. It was stipulated that minimum damage was one for this fight, so she was taking one damage from each of her attacks and also one damage from each of his, while he was only taking the one damage from each of hers. Preechr posted:Also, he was a bear. I assume that means his health pool expanded. What they said. Given the mechanics of the game system and the rules in place for the duel, the absolute most damage either of us could do was 2 points, and that was if we landed a crit. But, since we both had Fortitude, we could literally ignore that damage, hence the stipulation that we had to let at least one point go through. So, every time I hit her, she would take 1. Every time she hit me, we both took 1. And turning into a bear gave me two extra hit boxes, combined with the fact that I had more Blood to spend on myself to heal, she just couldn't win.
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the_steve posted:The time for the duel rolls around, and as I enter - replete with red basketball shorts, a red t-shirt with STIGMANIA painted on it in yellow and combat boots - Rick Derringer's "Real American" plays on a wireless speaker I had stashed in the room earlier, and I do as close to a Hulkamania entrance as I can before finishing with "WHAT'CHA GONNA DO AVA, WHEN STIGMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOOOOOUUUUUU!?" before ripping the shirt off, revealing a yellow shirt with STIGMANIA painted in red.
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 Didn't get much in the way of pictures, this is pretty much the best/only one. Stig, and his second in the duel, Charlie of Clan Brujah.
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Apr 14, 2019 19:19
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:extremely bear voice: rrrrrhg yyyyyeaaaaah brrrrother!!
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Starting my last game I had two rules for player creation choices: Only official WotC material (no homebrew), and no flyers. Because gently caress flying as a racial trait, it is just so so dumb for reasons others have already elaborated on. And I'm going to be perfectly blunt, but the fact you decided to bring it up in group email instead of just person to person was a dick move on your part. He was probably annoyed that you decided to publicly question his choices instead of asking for private clarification, and I honestly don't blame him. Really the only thing I see wrong from his end was not being more clear and upfront about not wanting flying PCs.
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Apr 14, 2019 21:49
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You can even be the flying man but double exhaustion when flying so you can't fly all the time or like, you can't fly cos the jungle is too dense and above the canopy you can't see where you're going. There's a bunch of ways of going "hey, you can be the guy but not fly all the time" and just say instead of being weird about it.
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Apr 14, 2019 21:49
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This is amazing.
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Apr 14, 2019 21:53
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Kung Food posted:And I'm going to be perfectly blunt, but the fact you decided to bring it up in group email instead of just person to person was a dick move on your part.
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Apr 14, 2019 22:09
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Yawgmoth posted:No it wasn't. If you're gonna make rules for the group you should be willing to answer any questions about those rules in front of the group, if for no other reason than having those questions answered once instead of four times. If your houserules can't stand up to public scrutiny, then your rules suck and you shouldn't be making them. It's not a "dick move" to ask someone something that will affect the entire group in front of the group. I've done Forum and Post by Email games, and you always ask and answer questions in public, so everyone is on the same page and everything is transparent. You privately talk to players about *issues*, not rules (unless it's so bad it had to be publicly brought out - i.e: X is no longer allowed because they were being disruptive and creepy).
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Apr 14, 2019 22:15
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Having a public index of your house rules and chargen and w/e is great because then players don't ask things more than once and you don't have to worry about forgetting poo poo
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Apr 14, 2019 22:18
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Robindaybird posted:I've done Forum and Post by Email games, and you always ask and answer questions in public, so everyone is on the same page and everything is transparent. You privately talk to players about *issues*, not rules (unless it's so bad it had to be publicly brought out - i.e: X is no longer allowed because they were being disruptive and creepy). Perfectly reasonable, and I see the logic in it. Some DMs would prefer to handle it differently. Personally I would rather it stay private until both sides are happy then make a public update if the other players need it (Which for character creation they probably don't unless anyone else wanted to be birdman). My reason being is people can get really heated over nerd poo poo and if I can nip public drama in the bud then that's the action I'm taking. The dick move was making a DM choice for the DM by taking it public without asking him.
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Apr 14, 2019 23:30
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The GM doesn't have any special authority over social life, though. The choice is both of theirs how to handle this, and doing it in the open is not a bad call.
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Apr 14, 2019 23:35
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Eh it sounds like there already was an existing private communication channel between the player and the DM regarding character creation and if the player then suddenly decided on his own to take things public I'd be annoyed too, as the DM in this scenario.
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Apr 14, 2019 23:42
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I had talked to the GM in session 0 in a group setting, and we had been communicating through a email group, so I thought it best to simply reply all my issues. There were ways we could have communicated 1-on-1 via Discord or mail, but i hadn't been doing so previously (I'd only chatting in a public channel on discord). Maybe I could have just sent to the GM, but I guess I figured we had been talking on reply-all email, so I might as well voice my concern that way, because that was being done. I don't really even care about flying, I liked more the ascetic idea of being a bird man. It's more the weird exhaustion rules for walking that bothered me.
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Foolster41 posted:I don't really even care about flying, I liked more the ascetic idea of being a bird man. It's more the weird exhaustion rules for walking that bothered me. The fact that he wants to apply them just to you really bothers me. I understand doing a jungle survival adventure where everyone has to track food and clean water and exhaustion and perhaps disease/rot, but I'm of a mind that he is punishing you and you alone for being a flyer. If I were you, and I'm not, but if I were I would ask him directly. I would counsel that you tell him that you like the idea of a birdman, but you realise that flying presents balance issues and are willing to play one that is "grounded" for one reason or another. However, in return you insist that exhaustion rules be either a uniform part of the campaign or not exist at all. If he persists, I daresay that this might not be the campaign for you.
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Rescuequote:We rest the night and by dawn things seem less grim for Snakeeyes. His wound remains serious but does not have the angry heat of infection, so we decide to press on to the docks and hunt for Vernon’s barge.
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JustJeff88 posted:The fact that he wants to apply them just to you really bothers me. I understand doing a jungle survival adventure where everyone has to track food and clean water and exhaustion and perhaps disease/rot, but I'm of a mind that he is punishing you and you alone for being a flyer. If I were you, and I'm not, but if I were I would ask him directly. I would counsel that you tell him that you like the idea of a birdman, but you realise that flying presents balance issues and are willing to play one that is "grounded" for one reason or another. However, in return you insist that exhaustion rules be either a uniform part of the campaign or not exist at all. If he persists, I daresay that this might not be the campaign for you. Yeah, I emailed a follow up that i realized that flying could be broken, and offered a non-flying bird man. No response yet though.
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Foolster41 posted:Yeah, I emailed a follow up that i realized that flying could be broken, and offered a non-flying bird man. No response yet though. I hope his name is Kiwi
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Agrikk posted:I hope his name is Kiwi 
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Splicer posted:Cassowary 
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(Played the The Sword, The Crown and the Unspeakable Power yesterday.) Weird things happen in the city of Varda, Armenia, in the year 400 BC. A crazy witch is sent as an envoy to the 10,000 strong Greek militia, who claims they just want to pass by. The king, not knowing this, sends merchants to tempt the Greeks, saying the city defense is weak. Meanwhile, a magical revolutionary sneaks their way into the citadel. The queen, using a tremendous amount of rumors, schemes and dark whispers, tries to profit out the situation. The Greeks should come in and trade, and no blood should be shed. She sends a witch to the greeks as a gift/sabotage. A series of miscommunications and some darker than expected magic leaves the revolutionary wanted for murder. A bounty is set. More chaos. The Witch returns but is arrested for idiocy & treason. The Greeks seem to invade, throwing the city into panic. The revolutionary storm is the castle, only to be turned on for the reward. The king rides out and with a single slash knocks the revolutionary unconscious. Urged on by the queen, the king tramples the zealot to death. The crowd scatters, cheers and rushes the Royal guard… As the Greeks pass by, miles outside the city. Later, the witch escapes the royal dungeon, steals the towns only turtle and flees to Greece. Future scholars claim this is another fictitious work of Herodotus.
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So the GM mailed me back, apologizing for how they may have come off as rude. He said I was the only one doing a variaent species and how my walk speed is 25 ft. (Which is the same speed as a small character like a gnome, so I don't know why that matters) and how I'd get dehydraded faster walking. He said I said myself I'd be less fun to play as a birdman (actually, I said the tired out aspect sounded less fun for me, and arbitrary), and that's why he was frustrated. He said he gave me latitude to play the character and "shoved it in his face", doing something that I knew was foolish. At this point, IDK if I want to actually play with this GM. I migoht go with the gnome illusionist conman, or just nope out.
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Yeah that's not a great first impression. I would be concerned about flying at level 1, it's a little weird, and it's so easy to just tell you my concerns and let you be like, an ostrichman or a chickenman or whatever you imagine as a not flying birdman.
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Foolster41 posted:So the GM mailed me back, apologizing for how they may have come off as rude. 
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Foolster41 posted:So the GM mailed me back, apologizing for how they may have come off as rude. Yeah, I'd cut this guy loose. It's pretty clear he's gonna lose his poo poo the very first time anyone comes up with a creative solution to anything that he didn't think of two weeks prior.
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Yeah, it's a realism thing. He emailed me again and says Gnomes and Dwarves are terrestrial, and the game says Aaracokra spend most of their time in the air, so they'd be more tired walking, thus why the diffeernce. He also made it sound like now it wouldn't be as big a deal as he made it sound before (saying something how it'd have little impact on the game, but if I roll poorly or forget to drink, like any character it'd be harder for me). I think I'll give this group a chance, and see how thins go, but yeah I consider this a strike against the GM. But I think i"ll play it safe and not do a birdman, since they have all that going against them. I was hoping to try to do a gnome illusionist with a "pull rabbit out of hat" type spell at the appropriate level (learning the ranger/druid spell "Conjure animals" and the GM said they'd allow it, I'd do a side-quest to learn it, rather than just have it (fair enough), but now I fear he's going to unessicerily difficult about that, so I might just go with human monk, maybe with a bird-like apparel theme. (Mask, tassels on arm_) )
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Foolster41 posted:I might just go with human monk, maybe with a bird-like apparel theme. (Mask, tassels on arm_) )
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Yeah, I think luchadore is probibly what I had in mind for my character. Think sort of the pokemon Hawluche, but as a costume, and more the color/markings maybe of a Aaracockra.
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Yawgmoth posted:It's pretty clear he's gonna lose his poo poo the very first time anyone comes up with a creative solution to anything that he didn't think of two weeks prior. This to me is the big reason to quietly exit, especially if your alternative is to play an illusionist conman. e: playing "Mother, may I" with a GM who has their own arbitrary view on what is realistic outside of the rules is a death sentence for any sort of creative character concept. Coward fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Leaping back into thread, as someone currently going through 5e ToA (I'm on my second character - a Dwarf Totem Barbarian, my previous Dwarf War Cleric got thunderbolted to death at level 1 by a trap, woo), definitely sever. My GM was straight up "yeah, I'm not allowing flying races" and I understood why off the bat, and he's a chill dude who is direct and to the point, no faffing about. This guy increasingly sounds like an "It's not my fault, I'm sorry for possibly being rude (I totally wasn't) but you're a jerk-face meanie pants for daring to question my authority, and here's reasons why" sort of guy, with an added dose of "I'm going to gently caress with the background to make it seem more realistic for a given value of my own perception of realism" type bullshit (In a magical elfgame). That said, if you're not going to sever, please post anything interesting that arises from this cat-piss in the making. And make sure someone is bringing a cleric and/or a character with the Outlander background to remove the need for those food/water and survival checks and/or the exhaustion bullshit - although this guy sounds like the type to screw you over for thinking ahead anyway, so be prepared.
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Apologies for the lack of Tanicus updates - I hit a mental and emotional rut/lull and just haven't been focused lately. No will to recap. But! We're still playing, still wanting to strangle our DM after congratulating him, and after game this past Sunday I called up a good friend of mine to yell at him for decisions his PC made in a Tanicus campaign run FIFTEEN years prior... And a few sessions ago, we fought this. 
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I think it's the Reaper version of an aboleth.
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Foolster41 posted:if I roll poorly or forget to drink, like any character it'd be harder for me). Wait hold on, if you forget to drink? Is this "If the party forgets to locate water" or "I am going to make you tell me every time your character drinks water and if you don't tell me I'm penalizing you because it didn't happen?"
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raminasi posted:Wait hold on, if you forget to drink? Is this "If the party forgets to locate water" or "I am going to make you tell me every time your character drinks water and if you don't tell me I'm penalizing you because it didn't happen?" yeah, Seeeeever, that kind of busywork bookkeeping only exists for a DM to screw a player over, it's not fun.
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See this is why I love FATE style or other bennie based flaw systems. "Put Easily Dehydrated on your sheet" (later) "I will give you three hold to be too thirsty to fly for this fight"
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raminasi posted:Wait hold on, if you forget to drink? Is this "If the party forgets to locate water" or "I am going to make you tell me every time your character drinks water and if you don't tell me I'm penalizing you because it didn't happen?"
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