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Lemniscate Blue posted:I think they're declaring that telling transphobes to gently caress off is a core purview of the discord in question, and I have no problem with that. I mean, fair. If I'm on a trans rights Discord, that makes perfect sense. But if I'm on a trad games Discord and I'm already a believer in trans rights, Pride, and dismantling oppressive police structures, then somebody just pinged me for no reason and wasted my attention. Use Announcements. Use pins. Use server rules. Don't @ me.
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"Please sir, it is customary to pay a bit of attention to the trans and destitute, many thousand are in want of common notice, sir." "Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses? Are they still in operation?"
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if it's a big enough server it's also good for clearing people out
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Jun 9, 2023 05:26
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The official FASA discord kept pinging me letting me know that they're taking care of drama that I never heard about nor cared about. If it's an official discord they shouldn't be giving everyone (or anyone?) the everyone command unless it's a message that interests everyone who follows the company/product. If it's a private discord, then whatever.
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I once got reminded to vote in the UK elections on at least one Goon server. They were certainly important elections, of course. I took it as fair since I'm sure all our UK siblings have to put up with American bullshit constantly.
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Frivolous use of @everyone gets people to suppress @everyone on that server in the future. Which probably isn't ideal.
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getting mad at @everyone is performative. you're fine
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nah it's a legit peeve some people have
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Mister Olympus posted:if it's a big enough server it's also good for clearing people out This was it. Overall the Discord does less than one everyone ping a month, maybe one every few months. (I’m erring on the side of caution since we did one in May for moderator elections.) Also I should note I did the ping in a discussion channel so besides the chuds we also had a lot of funny queer convos with people feeling supported and realizing the server could be a good place for them. Win-win, imo. But yes, people posting anime gifs angry about the red 1 number are legit too.
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I mean if you do one ping a month this is the one to do this month I suppose
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Is there a thread for Greg Stolze's games? I could've sworn there was, but I can't find it. Did I hallucinate it?
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Runa posted:nah it's a legit peeve some people have it's just a dumb one to have
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LaSquida posted:Is there a thread for Greg Stolze's games? I could've sworn there was, but I can't find it. Did I hallucinate it? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3306874
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Thanks! No idea why I couldn't find this on Search.
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Ominous Jazz posted:it's just a dumb one to have Like all aspects of decorum, some people care more about some than others.
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Kind of hosed up that some folks are saying that being annoyed by pings is a reasonable reason to not try to weed out transphobes from a community.
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Jun 9, 2023 16:47
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I hate the honeypot i keep smelling honey
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Just put trans stuff in the actual community content itself. It's not hard to get bigots to out themselves without giving everyone a dinging noise on their phone.
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Whomst the gently caress joins a Discord and doesn't immediately mute @everyone and @here?
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He who is ideologically pure does not fear the ping at midnight.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Just put trans stuff in the actual community content itself. It's not hard to get bigots to out themselves without giving everyone a dinging noise on their phone. Yeah, the Discord server I'm most active in usually does pings on the few instances when they ban someone who somehow didn't get the picture coming in by just reading the drat rules.
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I don't want that to be real 
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Ominous Jazz posted:I don't want that to be real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCCRTq8yygs It isn't 
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For now.
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I could see someone selling powergaming advice, despite it being available easy for free.
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Jun 9, 2023 19:16
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The 4e character builder was basically that except
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That thing was such an easy and amusing way to waste a few hours designing hyper-focused characters I would never use.
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It was a really neat tool especially since wvery dnd after 3rd really wants you to plan your character from 1st level to 30 or whatever and it makes a lot of sense that woc would see a tool beloved by fans that makes their game easier to play and shitcan it forever
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The key to success in the free market is to destroy all other alternatives so the lowest effort option is the only one available.
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Ominous Jazz posted:It was a really neat tool especially since wvery dnd after 3rd really wants you to plan your character from 1st level to 30 or whatever and it makes a lot of sense that woc would see a tool beloved by fans that makes their game easier to play and shitcan it forever I've never really gotten that, the idea of "planning" my character. Sometimes I have a vague arc in mind for them, but usually that's in terms of story and personality, but even that usually gets derailed by things happening and interactions with other people. Actually making a super elaborate plan like that and sticking with it seems alien. Plus, what do you do when you get to the end? Congratulations, now you can explode everything, also the game is over and done with.
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Kind of a weird question but I have two original Slann miniatures from the Citadel Miniatures line. Made in 1986 and old enough that the back of each blister has a lead warning. What could I get for these? I'm trying to offload some random stuff I have. These, Archeon on foot from Games Day 2004, some other stuff.
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I note that nowhere do they promise that the wacky adventures that got your character up to 30th level did not occur in the piss wizard's dungeon.
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I can sort of imagine someone really sad paying for Pathfinder Society leveling services. But I don’t think it’s ever happened.
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For sale. Pathfinder Character. Gently used.
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Arivia posted:But yes, people posting anime gifs angry about the red 1 number are legit too.  Interestingly enough, Sword World 2.5 specifically has a very similar concept, called "Fellows". Essentially, you take an existing character, distill it down to four options for it to do whenever, depending upon a 2d6 roll, and fluff it out. The character sheet normally looks something like this:  where a fellow sheet is much more simplified, and looks like this:  An important thing to notice is the lack of HP on the fellow sheet, and this is intentional. Basically, a fellow can't take damage, let alone anything that would damage them though to kill them. Kinda rude to kill off someone's character when they're not even using it, right? They just kinda dodge out of the way, or bring their shield up just in time, or whatever. Even negative effects, like poisons, curses, etc. don't affect fellows. There's also little check boxes in the lower right corner, for experience and rewards, so the character's owner can choose whether or not the character gets any rewards for going out and adventuring as a fellow. Some might just want to get some extra experience, some might just want the items, some might want both. Obviously, this is much more effective in Japan, where the playerbase is larger and fellows can be shared much more often, but there's a decent amount of fellows on the unofficial discord server. Once a fellow is taken out on an adventure and returns, the players taking the fellow ought to let the fellow's owner know what happened, so that way they can work it into the character's story, and maybe even remake an updated fellow later on down the road. Not to say there aren't limitations, though. First, fellows can't go out and adventure alone, there's gotta be at least one actual full PC (though you could totally do solo play with 1 PC and a few fellows). Second, they don't use their own consumable items (potions and the like), but must be given them from the PC's own inventory. Third, a fellow can't go out scouting alone, they're considered to be in the same area as a PC (so no using them for cheap, unkillable scouting). Fourth, they can only really take actions on the sheet, for the most part. The GM can have them take very simple actions, such as hiding along with a PC, or following them through a maze, etc, but for the most part if they are to have any actual, mechanical effect on the game, they are limited by the actions to be on the sheet. (As an aside, if the action desired the PCs and the action rolled on the fellow sheet don't match, it's assumed that either the fellow can't perform the action, or has tried and failed, whichever would make sense given the context.) Fifth, as the fellows are immune to damage, there's a chance that all of the PCs could die in combat. If that happens, the fellows basically just leave the PCs where they were, and bounce back to safety. If the scenario requires a report to be made to a client, for example, the fellow will do that, but they'll make their escape from the TPK as best they can, leaving the PCs behind. Now, rules as written a fellow is essentially equivalent to a single PC, but there's definitely a few campaigns that have been translated that would likely need to have two fellows be the equivalent of a PC due to their difficulty. That same house rule is also recommended if you're going for solo play, All in all, it's a very interesting system, and makes it easier for groups with fewer players be able to get together and play without having to worry about toning down encounters.
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Honestly I just think the @everyone and @all features in Discord were a mistake. They have a very clear purpose: Tagging important announcements that pertain to everyone on the server. The problem is that way too many people abuse that because they're too lazy to set proper roles in their server or individually tag the people these announcements actually pertain to. It becomes a problem for people like me because I have multiple servers that I'm active in and try to use my notifications as a signal that a discussion needs my attention. While the time it takes to check a notification isn't particularly great in the grand scheme of things, when you're active on multiple servers with people who keep spamming the tagging system it quickly starts to become a chore. That said, keep in mind this is a discussion entirely adjacent to the use-case that started this discussion as occasionally roach-bombing the transphobes and CHUDs out of a server is an important act of community maintenance.
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My Lovely Horse posted:was there actual reason to believe there were secret homophobes in need of rooting out or was it more like a "everything's going well here but what if there are secret homophobes" kinda thing It’s a big public server with north of 1000 people on at any time. There were definitely chuds around.
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