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Lord Frisk posted:Don't ever change plutonis. Except when your doctors tell you to.
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FactsAreUseless posted:At least Mikael_Kreoss had the excuse of head-wound related brain damage. That would explain a lot actually...
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I am a really reasonable person when I take my antipsychotics. Hurray for Psychiatry! Brain pills are pretty great
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:That would explain a lot actually...
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FactsAreUseless posted:severely damaged hole. !!!
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Plutonis, talking to the moon at night: Why the long face?
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Thank you, Plutonis, for reminding me I have a copy of Baudolino. I read it again because I was tired of trashy genre fiction and enjoyed it a lot and now I am back to reading trashy genre fiction.
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Has anyone here played Blue Rose? I am reading some reviews to get a feel for the game, but I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who actually tried it. e: If someone could also point me in yhe general direction of romantic fantasy novels, or at least explain to me why are they so strictly defined (there HAVE to be sentient animals, apparently?) I'd be grateful. paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:Has anyone here played Blue Rose? I am reading some reviews to get a feel for the game, but I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who actually tried it. It's a d20 ripoff so it's mechanics are not as progressive as the content of the world you're role-playing in, although how progressive a world with magical gypsies in it can be is up to you to decide. For your second question, it's a micro-genre so Romantic Fantasy is actually composed of a small selection of very prolific authors with similar recurring themes, so it can be easily defined.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Has anyone here played Blue Rose? I am reading some reviews to get a feel for the game, but I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who actually tried it. Talking to animals is one of the ancient dreams of humanity. Nowadays, we know that animals are dumb, so we invent special ones to talk to. Because of socialization factors, young women, the target audience of romantic fantasy, are more likely to express this dream today and so it appears there.
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My cats are dumb as hell, I still talk to them all the time. They just have one track minds, it's actually refreshingly simple once you get that they're trying in their tiny kitty brains, to manipulate you into doing whatever it is that they want at that moment. But yeah, outside of like primates and some marine mammals animals don't have poo poo worth saying, it'd be like talking to a toddler.
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My sister once asked a friend of hers why every book she'd lent her had talking cats in it. The friend hadn't even noticed. It's not just romantic fantasy, the things are everywhere in fantasy/sci-fi.
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Splicer posted:My sister once asked a friend of hers why every book she'd lent her had talking cats in it. The friend hadn't even noticed. It's not just romantic fantasy, the things are everywhere in fantasy/sci-fi. Hell even the Baen books shitbag David Weber got to talking cats eventually.
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I once read a series of books with alien telepaths who happened to look and act exactly like oversize cats, except you know not tiny sociopaths like cats actually are.
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jigokuman posted:Thank you, Plutonis, for reminding me I have a copy of Baudolino. I read it again because I was tired of trashy genre fiction and enjoyed it a lot and now I am back to reading trashy genre fiction. I dont think there is a bad Eco book so you should read all of them. Saramago is also one of my favorites but he is better read in Portuguese. e: When I finish this book about the Peloponnesian War I'm probs going to try the Magic Mountain by Mann Plutonis fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Is there a website, app, tool, whatever where you can plug in a number or a range and it outputs the dice expressions that could result in that?
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Could you give an example input/output?
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Splicer posted:Could you give an example input/output? Like, I could put in a range of 3-12 and it'd tell me that I can get that with a 1d10+2 and any other dice expressions that could do it too Or if I wanted to get damage dice that would average 7 damage per roll, I could input 7 and it'd tell me that 2d6 gets you there (with the understanding that multi-dice expressions produce bell curves) VVVVVVV that lets me input a dice expression and gives me the possible results. I'm looking for the other way around. gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there a website, app, tool, whatever where you can plug in a number or a range and it outputs the dice expressions that could result in that? http://anydice.com/ It takes a bit of learning to get the outputs you want, but it'll do just about anything with the right code.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Like, I could put in a range of 3-12 and it'd tell me that I can get that with a 1d10+2 and any other dice expressions that could do it too
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Ha, I was just about done when I realised I was only looking at C+XdY formats (i.e. 4 to 18 would return 2+2d8, but not 2+1d8+1d10). I'll look back into it tomorrow when I am less stupid. I haven't written anything in javascript in years so I'm having fun dusting off the cobwebs.
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Splicer posted:Ha, I was just about done when I realised I was only looking at C+XdY formats (i.e. 4 to 18 would return 2+2d8, but not 2+1d8+1d10).
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Zereth posted:Well, that's sitll correct becuase 1d8+1d10+2 has a minimum of 4, and a max of 20.  Splicer posted:I'll look back into it tomorrow when I am less stupid. Splicer fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:Has anyone here played Blue Rose? I am reading some reviews to get a feel for the game, but I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who actually tried it. Blue Rose is a Mercedes Lackey book in RPG form so anything by her will work if you want to read up on the genre, especially the stuff where everyone gets a magic white horse friend to ride around on. Romantic fantasy is just fantasy with a progressive/positive spin. So like it's magical medieval Europe but everyone is chill with gay people and women can be cool and active participants in society (in ways that defy our revisionist view of the middle ages as a giant rape-and-plague-a-thon). So it's fantasy that's more of a female/minority power fantasy than the classic pulp male power fantasy. Tamora Pierce does the same thing but targeted at tweens/young adults, primarily in her Tortall novels. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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The months keep March-ing on: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3703658
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