Kaddish posted:

This is a fun survivorslike where you have to play some inventory tetris between rounds. A little annoying to manage the inventory with controller though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2342950/God_Of_Weapons/

SirSamVimes posted:

Oh sweet I was thinking of picking up Midnight Suns on the sale but now I need not bother

deep dish peat moss posted:

I have never run into a single person ever who had a hard time understanding THAC0 outside of these forums

deep dish peat moss posted:

You roll a D20 to attack. THAC0 is the amount you have to roll to hit. You add the target's Armor Class to your roll.

If your THAC0 is 15 and the target has -2 AC, you roll a D20 and remove 2 from the result. If the final result is 15 or higher, you hit. If the target's has 5AC, you roll a D20 and add 5 to the result.

It's almost the exact same system as current edition D&D except the "number you have to hit" is part of the attacker's stats (THAC0) instead of the defender's stats (AC). Both systems have modifiers from various sources that get added to the final result - current edition stuff actually requires way more math because there is a much larger pool of potential modifiers.

Volte posted:

I dunno how your GM handles it but I don't actually know the AC or attack modifiers (or would-be THAC0) of my opponents. In the modern system, one person calculates their number using exclusively information available to them and the other person compares it to their number, also calculated exclusively using information available to them, and the outcome can be immediately determined. With THAC0 it's not so straightforward. To the defender, the incoming attack roll needs to be modulated by their AC, but without knowing the THAC0 of the attacker, they can't actually say if it hits or not. Likewise to the attacker, the outgoing attack roll needs to be modulated by the defender's AC, and again they don't necessarily have that information. As a result, additional intermediate information needs to be exchanged. It ends up being two people collaborating on a distributed arithmetic problem that could just as easily be formulated as a non-distributed one by putting all the attack-relevant information on one side and all the defense-relevant information on the other side.

The only way I can see that THAC0 really makes any intuitive sense is when you look at it as a generalization of the old dice roll lookup tables with armor class on one axis and character level on the other - in that case, a player didn't necessarily even need to know their own THAC0 since it was just the AC=0 row of the lookup table and all the GM needed to know was the class and level of the player to know if their attack rolls hit, and their AC to know if attack rolls against them hit. I mean if your argument is that the GM should be the keeper of all the mechanical processes and the players shouldn't be doing anything but saying the number on their die and waiting for the GM's black box to output the result, then I guess that's one argument for a THAC0 system, but that's just not how anyone plays it anymore.

Also what potential modifiers are you talking about? Are you referring to 3.5/Pathfinder? Because in D&D 5e the only numbers you need to add to your rolls are your ability modifier and possibly proficiency modifier, neither of which change very often. Maybe like an extra d4 from Guidance or something.

mycot posted:

Most TTRPGs have some form of roll [number] to hit THAC0 is just a funny word. In my head it rhymes with taco.

tater_salad posted:

ThacN0morediscussionaboutthisshit

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I legit play a lot of PC games that I would never play the tabletop versions of because I want to take advantage of modern society creating machines that can do these calculations for me.

ninjoatse.cx posted:

My contribution to the ttrpg -> video game discussion is that I'm officially done with traps in video games. There are arguments about their place in ttrpgs, but it's always just as boring in video games. Oh! You spotted a trap! Now you can do the fun mechanic of clicking on a thing and making it go away. Oh! There's another trap! Do the same poo poo again. Even BG3 where there were puzzles or things you could do to block them still sucked. On subsequent playthroughs they're always worse.

Let's just not have them, or have them all be the puzzle traps that are always as interesting as the puzzle you have to figure out.

ninjoatse.cx posted:

My contribution to the ttrpg -> video game discussion is that I'm officially done with traps in video games. There are arguments about their place in ttrpgs, but it's always just as boring in video games. Oh! You spotted a trap! Now you can do the fun mechanic of clicking on a thing and making it go away. Oh! There's another trap! Do the same poo poo again. Even BG3 where there were puzzles or things you could do to block them still sucked. On subsequent playthroughs they're always worse.

Let's just not have them, or have them all be the puzzle traps that are always as interesting as the puzzle you have to figure out.

Harminoff posted:

Is there, and if so, what's the best jackbox pack right now?

Det_no posted:

Since people are buying a bunch of stuff, it is a good time for a reminder you can use Steamdb's Free Packages script to quickly get all the free DLC available for your games.

https://steamdb.info/freepackages/

Make sure to press the link where it says "If you want to only view content for your owned games, click here to only show these."

You can use that page to get a lot of free goodies. Most of the time they are the usual things like a free soundtrack or artbook but sometimes you also get "hidden", promotional DLC not displayed on the store page. I just got one of the five Kickstarter exclusive packs available for My Time At Portia, for example.

claw game handjob posted:

Holy poo poo do not activate this without that filter and leave for the holidays, I'm now hundreds of truly dire titles deeper in my library and it'll run for at least another day before I can kill it, even with the rate limiter.

I am now the "proud" owner of such masterworks as Devil May Cry: Molasses Edition, We have Spyro at home, IKEA Simulator 2023 and at least a dozen Backrooms Simulators.

Hwurmp posted:

THAC0 is whac0

FastestGunAlive posted:

Excuse me but saying auto pause for detect traps dates back to DOS is og baldurs gate erasure

Kaddish posted:

This is a fun survivorslike where you have to play some inventory tetris between rounds. A little annoying to manage the inventory with controller though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2342950/God_Of_Weapons/

Phlegmish posted:

Are you talking about my review? I mentioned Pillars of Eternity, not D:OS, but yeah, in retrospect I should have specified that Pillars was the first CRPG to have customizable auto-pausing with so many different options.

This is the part where someone goes 'actually...' so I'm sure they weren't even the first ones to do that, but it's still something I remember fondly about Pillars, and I wish it had been adopted by BG3 (which doesn't have pausing at all for some reason, I guess because it's turn-based rather than RTwP, but so is Solasta and you can pause outside of combat in that game)

FuzzySlippers posted:

I’ve been pondering Aliens Dark Descent for a while. I don’t really like those Commandos style real time games of shepherding a little group around an rts map, but something more like a rtwp Xcom could be good especially if it leans into more rpg stuff. What’s the vibe on it?

tater_salad posted:

ThacN0morediscussionaboutthisshit

Chas McGill posted:

I got myself a monitor that does 144hz, gsync etc (Gigabyte G27). Do I need to set it up for every game or do games detect when they can do more frames or whatever? I'm old.

Chas McGill posted:

I got myself a monitor that does 144hz, gsync etc (Gigabyte G27). Do I need to set it up for every game or do games detect when they can do more frames or whatever? I'm old.

Chas McGill posted:

I got myself a monitor that does 144hz, gsync etc (Gigabyte G27). Do I need to set it up for every game or do games detect when they can do more frames or whatever? I'm old.

HopperUK posted: