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PharmerBoy posted:Is the old guy anyone of importance? I generally don't watch rear end in a top hat's videos on the principal of "Don't give them the views," so I don't particularly want to click on it if it's just some rando. It's some no-name dude with a total of 55 views on his video. I'm not even sure how the OP came upon the video in the first place and now I'm mad that the Youtube algo is going to think I wanted to see it.
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My condolences for the people posting here today who just discovered that YouTube has a huge pool of nobodies who use the website to post crazy right wing conspiracy rants to an audience of 20 people, but I don't personally care and don't see why this needed to be remarked upon.
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Apr 7, 2023 17:13
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He's got 9,270 subscribers to his 4,600 videos. Is that considered good?
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Apr 7, 2023 17:15
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Gynovore posted:He sounds like the sort of guy who legit tries to build a Peasant Railgun and then cries for fifteen minutes when the GM says "uhhhh no."
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Apr 7, 2023 17:18
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Halloween Jack posted:He's got 9,270 subscribers to his 4,600 videos. Is that considered good? I went looking at his pages in a private tab now. He's a guy with an Ebay store that he sells wargame figurines, supplies, and mini painting services through. The YouTube channel has been running since 2007 so most of the subscribers are just from it being a long-extant channel tied to a guy's business because he uses it to preview things his Ebay store sells. He does have a massive slew of videos, mostly him playing various nerdy flight sims, X-COM, etc. that are lucky if they get mid double digit views. Plus some hot algorithm fodder with over 700 views, like a video about the Rings of Power show and others ranting about about how D&D is woke now. So yeah, whatever dumb poo poo is said in that D&D video is just more empty rage bait because that's what's given him attention and ad revenue.
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Apr 7, 2023 17:52
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Zereth posted:The peasant railgun doesn't even work. D&D 3.x does not have rules for momentum. It instantly travels the entire length of the "railgun", and then the guy at the end uses the normal throwing rules. Correct, it is a peasant teleportation device. Piell posted:Besides magic, there are two methods for mass transportation. The first method requires a large number of unskilled laborers, one for every 30 feet between destinations. To start, line up all the peasants 30 feet apart, then have them all delay until they're at the same initiative. The first peasant picks up whatever you need transported (bags of holding loaded with objects are a good choice here) as a move action, walks 30 feet as a second move action, and then drops it, where it is then picked up by the second peasant, and so on. You can then either have the peasants walk back to their starting point or carry something the other way in the second round. This costs 17.6 gp per mile per day. Assuming the peasants work 8 hours a day, have average strength, and carry their maximum light load each round, they can move 47.52 tons per day in each direction. You can move more weight if you decrease the distance between peasants to 20 feet, so that they can carry a heavy load each way. The cost per mile per day goes up to 26.4 gp, but you can move 144 tons each direction per day.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:03
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How do you "have" a miles-long train of people all do something in the same six-second span of time
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Apr 7, 2023 18:07
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Halloween Jack posted:How do you "have" a miles-long train of people all do something in the same six-second span of time Overly literal interpretation of a turn based game with non simultaneous resolution. You don't. The peasant railgun and everything stemming from it has always fallen apart under the slightest glance.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:10
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Halloween Jack posted:How do you "have" a miles-long train of people all do something in the same six-second span of time quote:Manipulate an Item Peasant drops item, next peasant picks it up and drops it in their own square, and so on. This all happens within on Six Second Round. It's game mechanics is all.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:11
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Exactly. It works game-mechanically, but coordinating that many people to act simultaneously goes beyond game mechanics and isn't possible. It's not quite as obviously dumb as "use Iron Heart Surge to turn the sun off," but it's close.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:21
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SkyeAuroline posted:Overly literal interpretation of a turn based game with non simultaneous resolution. Peasant teleportation delivery service is 100% rules legal, unlike peasant railgun, it's only complete nonsense when you are treating it realistically instead of by game rules Piell fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Apr 7, 2023 |
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Apr 7, 2023 18:22
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Had a GM once deal with a very successful cast of Sleep (knocked down I think 6 low level baddies) by having the one remaining awake low level baddy in the same initiative group walk up to his sleeping friend and spend an action waking him. His friend woke up and took his turn standing up and waking the guy next to him, who woke the guy next to him, etc, to the point where they were all awake again within that turn. The net result of this was the level one cleric who had been feeling really good about a successfully cast spell just never used Sleep again. Not sure that's what the GM was going for.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:45
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costing six enemies their turn is still a really good deal in most systems, although obviously in the case you're describing there's still cause for frustration (assuming the expectation was "now the encounter is over")
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Apr 7, 2023 18:47
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what the GM was going for was showing off how smart they are, and it worked, I'm sure everyone was like "woah you can do that with the rules, gosh"
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Apr 7, 2023 18:49
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One of my favorite rule-lawyering in D&D 3.5E was with the antimagic field and the enlarge spell. Since the AM field temporarily suppress all the magic, and not just part of it, you can cast use permanence and an enlarge spell on a stick to create perpetual motion with an AM field.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:54
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Leperflesh posted:what the GM was going for was showing off how smart they are, and it worked, I'm sure everyone was like "woah you can do that with the rules, gosh" Well, it was more "woah, the GM can do that with the rules" as nobody else had multiple characters on the same initiative.
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Apr 7, 2023 19:00
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Halloween Jack posted:He's got 9,270 subscribers to his 4,600 videos. Is that considered good? Not really, if he were catching on with something besides racists he would have 10-100 times that.
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Apr 7, 2023 19:04
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Lamuella posted:Well, it was more "woah, the GM can do that with the rules" as nobody else had multiple characters on the same initiative. Right but they could, by using the delay action, if they're playing most (all?) versions of D&D, but anyway yeah sometimes GMs forget their key responsibilities and engage with the game rules the same way some players do - looking for optimal combinations to get the best possible results. And then showing that off to the other players because hey, look what I can do!
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Apr 7, 2023 20:26
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Leperflesh posted:Right but they could, by using the delay action, if they're playing most (all?) versions of D&D, but anyway yeah sometimes GMs forget their key responsibilities and engage with the game rules the same way some players do - looking for optimal combinations to get the best possible results. And then showing that off to the other players because hey, look what I can do! I mean, depending on the version the enemies would have been woken by “the noise of combat” next turn anyway, so the DM did them a favour by having them waste actions.
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Apr 7, 2023 21:26
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Comstar posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWrfLV_K0E There are literally thousands of these small fish and this is barely even schizophrenic enough to warrant commentary. I remember finding someone who had made a whopping 30 videos on Brie Larson's feet and her lack of painted nails (this means that the Captain Marvel movie is going to fail!)
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The public ORC draft is out. https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si9y
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:There are literally thousands of these small fish and this is barely even schizophrenic enough to warrant commentary. I remember finding someone who had made a whopping 30 videos on Brie Larson's feet and her lack of painted nails (this means that the Captain Marvel movie is going to fail!) I don't know how I ended up seeing his channel (I think he might have done some wargame video's at some point), but I hadn't actually seen any of these "D&D is too woke for me now. Also, WotC has people taken over by the devil writing for them now" myself. And 9k subscribers for a wargamers channel actually seems pretty high to me. Has any other game systems decided to remove "race" from their game? Seems like everyone's going to end up doing it in the next 5 years. Apologies to anyone who stuffed up their YouTube algorithm clicking the link. Comstar fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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Apr 8, 2023 01:50
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Comstar posted:Has any other game systems decided to remove "race" from their game? Seems like everyone's going to end up doing it in the next 5 years. It's been a pretty common movement in the D&D-alike space, at the very least. Pathfinder 2e uses ancestry, 13th Age 2e uses kin, honestly D&D is the weirdest for using something overly scientific like species.
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Pathfinder renamed races to ancestries between editions and a recent errata to 2e has decoupled specific ability score boosts and penalties from ancestry. (Technically it's an alternate creation method.) I think it's more common for some games, especially on the smaller scale of the hobby, to have just never bothered using "race" in such terms anyway.
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Thanlis posted:The public ORC draft is out. https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si9y A game-agnostic open source RPG license with guidance for how to use it (as they do in the draft with "product identity") is great. That "the community" deserves to be able to make money from other designers' hard work is something I don't get at all.
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homullus posted:A game-agnostic open source RPG license with guidance for how to use it (as they do in the draft with "product identity") is great. That "the community" deserves to be able to make money from other designers' hard work is something I don't get at all. It has been 23 years since the OGL was released and it’s been unequivocally a success for the people selling products under it. If you don’t want a third-party commercial community for your game don’t put it under the OGL or the ORC, nothing’s forcing you to.
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Arivia posted:It has been 23 years since the OGL was released and it’s been unequivocally a success for the people selling products under it. If you don’t want a third-party commercial community for your game don’t put it under the OGL or the ORC, nothing’s forcing you to. Is this a form of "if you don't like it, you don't have to use it"? I agree, and I do like it, but would probably not use it. What you wrote is not a meaningful response to what I was saying, which is "no game owes people an OGL." Even if it had been 230 years.
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You seem to be implying that ORC, or people wishing to use ORC, are forcing groups into this agreement. Do you have any significant sources to this effect? Significant, because as was just discussed with the YouTube vid, you will always be able to find at least one weirdo somewhere on the internet with a bad opinion Absent that, you're concerned about a scenario that isn't happening and shows no sign of happening.
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Nobody was talking about a game owing such a license or people "deserving" to make money off another game, that's something you brought in. It was poo poo that Wizards offered the deal for so long, very much to their advantage, and then tried to gently caress around with it on very short notice. But it was poo poo because it was on short notice and very controlling in how they clearly were trying to rewrite the deal to screw people. Even the announcement from Paizo and the FAQ was about how they think it's a good thing to have out there on offer for people to take advantage of if they so choose, not that it's specifically deserved or owed to people.
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No game "owes" anyone an OGL, but the OGL has been in the long-run a massive success for WotC in driving people into their arms and solidifying D&D as the dominant game of the current day and that success is built on the backs of other peoples' labor, so I'm going to say that yes the community does deserve to be able to make money from this since the community is making money for WotC. Whether you view this as a legitimate transactional relationship in the technical workplace since is, imo, completely irrelevant to the actual material reality of the situation. Or to put it another way: Arivia posted:If you don’t want a third-party commercial community for your game don’t put it under the OGL or the ORC, nothing’s forcing you to.
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Comstar posted:I don't know how I ended up seeing his channel (I think he might have done some wargame video's at some point), but I hadn't actually seen any of these "D&D is too woke for me now. Also, WotC has people taken over by the devil writing for them now" myself. And 9k subscribers for a wargamers channel actually seems pretty high to me. You probably saw his channel because youtube has been pushing videos with smaller view counts right now. My frontpage is full of videos with sub-100 views.
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PharmerBoy posted:You seem to be implying that ORC, or people wishing to use ORC, are forcing groups into this agreement. Do you have any significant sources to this effect? Significant, because as was just discussed with the YouTube vid, you will always be able to find at least one weirdo somewhere on the internet with a bad opinion disposablewords posted:Nobody was talking about a game owing such a license or people "deserving" to make money off another game, that's something you brought in. It was poo poo that Wizards offered the deal for so long, very much to their advantage, and then tried to gently caress around with it on very short notice. But it was poo poo because it was on short notice and very controlling in how they clearly were trying to rewrite the deal to screw people. Even the announcement from Paizo and the FAQ was about how they think it's a good thing to have out there on offer for people to take advantage of if they so choose, not that it's specifically deserved or owed to people. WotC is a corporation doing a mediocre job of managing a mediocre product. I don't care about them. I find the entitlement of the RPG community on the OGL issue alienating, though. Kai Tave posted:yes the community does deserve to be able to make money from this since the community is making money for WotC
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I mean, OGL has been the standard that people have in this space used for going on 2 decades now. Trying to change the terms on a status quo that has been set in stone for that period of time, with a number of people's business plans being based around said status quo is kinda bullshit. If WotC had just made their OGL 2 completely seperate and written specifically for whatever the next version or iteration of D&D was, people probably would have complained, people with an understanding and memory of history would laugh, and maybe they get away with it. Until it blows up in their face later. But it was specifically the notion that they were trying to change the overall terms from underneath people, that got people loving pissed. I guess it's entitlement technically, but uh, there are some kinda normal decent business and human things that people should be entitled to, or expect. And guess what, at the end of the day WotC could have kept pushing forward, no one complaining is actually owed anything, but people do have the right to voice their displeasure, and turns out enough people did that they stopped because making these changes was causing harm to their business/brand/reputation. Like they did the thing you absolutely cannot do, if you want to have people still use your poo poo, and stay around the D&D/D20/SDCIWCh realm to make sure they stay close to the market leader. And that's make people realize that anything they release under it could have on a whim it's terms changed on you, with ability to do anything other than stop selling it. Dexo fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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homullus posted:This, on the other hand, is exactly what I was talking about. What's "short notice"? Notice is only "short" when it's less than you think you should have gotten, in a bad way. What's "rewrite the deal to screw people"? Deals only screw people when they are getting less than they think they should have gotten. Oh, no, people aren't talking about deserving things, no, but it's lovely short notice screwing people over, what WotC did, but no, nobody felt they deserved something? I'm not convinced! "Short notice" was in terms of about 3 weeks, from initial announcement to initial deadline for when OGL 1.0 was going to be deauthorized for continued use. Books do not take mere weeks get out, so when Wizards was deciding to shift things around on everyone they were potentially pulling the rug out from under people with no real time to do anything, people who were operating on a deal they had taken in good faith. And yes a deal that massively benefited Wizards because it made them the focal point of a massive segment of the industry, even more than D&D already was. Plus adding in a profit-sharing demand if you made too much, including cuts of Kickstarters. It's behavior that showed they were untrustworthy and willing to arbitrarily change terms to their own advantage. But sure, not being happy at that is "entitlement." Three weeks is totally good warning time, everyone's just a crying baby parasite who wants to suck the life out of the Captains Of The RPG Industry.
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Homullus, I'm at a loss as to what you don't like about the situation. You're coming across as unhappy about either a)two consenting adults/corporations/combo thereof are entering freely into an agreement they find mutually beneficial, or b)consumers in that industry are pleased about actions that indicate future additional development of products their interested in. Serious question, I am not understanding the complaint.
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"entitlement" is a good way to frame it, but specifically to think of it as "an entitlement", as in, yes, you're not "owed" social security, but screwing with it is unpopular enough that you shouldn't
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Could someone use both ORC and the OGL at the same time? Cause you can from what I can tell, but I have not looked too closely.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Could someone use both ORC and the OGL at the same time? Cause you can from what I can tell, but I have not looked too closely. Uhhhhh maybe? You have to license anything derived from the OGL under the OGL. The equivalent is true for ORC material. So I suppose if you were insanely careful not to mingle material derived from the two licenses, sure? Seems like a really hard idea, though.
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gradenko_2000 posted:"entitlement" is a good way to frame it, but specifically to think of it as "an entitlement", as in, yes, you're not "owed" social security, but screwing with it is unpopular enough that you shouldn't Political derail in the spoiler. Point of order. I am in fact entitled to Social Security benefits. I have been paying into the system, I am entitled to get benefits out. Making "entitlements" a derogatory phrase is a right-wing talking point meant to get people to vote against their own interests. It's also a bit of Newspeak, because in plain English being entitled to something means it is yours by right, not some handout you get for free.
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