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Jason Sextro posted:
Peanut Butler already answered why CGA wasn't that bad per say, but here's a YouTuber talking more about it. I mostly just wanted to boost a not-terrible YouTuber. https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc
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CGA was so bizarrely horrid, I always wonder how they decided on eye-searing pink and turquoise as the two colours to use
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So does the game tell you once you've cleared an area of random encounters, or are you supposed to just assume that everyone is dead once they stop trying to kill you?
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Can... can we get some details? There's a story there that's dying to be told.
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Chokes McGee posted:Ring ring, there’s a mr. dracolich on the phone for you Uh, excuse me, dracolichs are clearly lichs in Dragon form, not dragons themselves. Note the lack of proper scales, and the tattered, shabby wings. No self-respecting dragon of any alignment would allow themselves to look like that.
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Chokes McGee posted:No matter where you go in fantasy worlds, trolls are always Serious Business™. I have no idea when they went from a warty monster under a bridge to hulking badasses, but here we are. Hey, that warty monster needed a goat to kill it. How many adventurers travel with a fully armed and operational battle goat?
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Oct 24, 2019 15:18
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Sacks of agitated chickens are different than goats.
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Chokes McGee posted:Next update is the one I talked about a few weeks ago where the lp starts coming together. It’s got a moment where we go from “a bunch of guys from choke’s lps over the years” to an actual cohesive team. Why, does Rezen actually pay her band of ne'er-do-wells?
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Oct 31, 2019 14:02
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Wait, if evil characters automatically join the villain at the end, what happens if you have an all-evil party? Does it just go "Game over, the end"?
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That's an interesting way to spell "hilarious". Is the Deck of Many Things in the Gold Box games at all, or were there some things just too... unstable for the engine to handle? Also, what about bags of holding and portable hole interactions?
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Nov 21, 2019 14:26
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I'm just eagerly anticipating the moment when Rezen "finds" a chainsaw in Faerun and lets nature take its course.
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Nov 22, 2019 14:21
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Either that, or Rezen makes a quick shopping run to Sigil because she had it with her all along, and just needed to fill up the gas tank. Wait, was Sigil/Planescape a thing when the gold box games came out? Edit: Planescape was first printed in 1994. A solid 2 years after the last Gold Box game came out. I guess that rules out Sigil shenanigans.
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Yeah, that fight just screams "spam Fireball" in design. Can you even get a mage to a high enough level to learn it in this game?
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Nov 25, 2019 14:11
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Wait, I thought that the once-per-day effects all had "on a miss, this deals half damage", which was still usually more than the basic or encounter move damages (barring lovely rolls)
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Not to mention that exp was more easily gained depending on your class (if I remember correctly, a thief would basically hit the level cap as soon as the party killed a dragon, because they got bonus exp based on the value of loot you find, and they had one of the lowest amount needed to hit the cap).
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Zeroisanumber posted:Turning Undead was deemphasized in 3ed but in previous editions it was baller Part of me is going to regret asking, but what's the D* for?
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Isn't that just straight D though?
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FeyerbrandX posted:How many zombies do you need before using them to create the greatest Thriller flashmob? The bigger question is how many zombies do you need before they have enough votes that they can vote out the current ruling party and instill the necromancer coven as the duly-elected rules of Phlan? ... what? Am I the only one that would use necromancy to assume power legally? Zombie apocalypses are great and all, but then you have "heroes" and "adventurers" and "chosen ones" kicking in your front door every weeknight and twice a night on weekends trying to stop the tide of darkness.
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Oh, well, if they Voltron together, then you just need one shot of Turn Undead to deal with them 
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I dunno, I kind of like the idea of just having a "mission" after the players have gotten a few levels where they just fight a swarm of weak enemies that used to be a headache, and just let them play with the tools that they may not get to use as regularly as their highest damage-per-round attacks. I mean, just push a giant ball of enemies at the players, and watch the fighters wade into the middle and being doing their best impersonations of Cuisinart blenders while the mages roll to see how many enemies they kill per spell dropped. This isn't something that I think would be run on the tabletop, but it's definitely one that I could see the group laughing and having a good time with just saying "Oh, I charge into the largest group of enemies, grab one and spin like a top" "Okay, roll to see how many you killed with that". A good "This is where you're at now, power wise" before they get smacked back down to earth by everything that isn't a kobold. Just a battle where the enemies are so severely outgunned that you would have to start using arbitrary numbers of enemies to actually pose a threat. I mean, they're kobolds. They're a threat to level 1 characters and that's about it. Even a housecat stands good odds of taking one down.
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Commander Keene posted:Kobolds may be weak, but a DM who really plays up their racial trapmaking and ambush tactics can make fighting an army of kobolds a daunting task. When did Kobolds become the trap masters anyways? Wasn't that only after 3rd edition came out and made them into lizardpeople instead of dogpeople?
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What size are the character portraits anyways?
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Chokes McGee posted:So, yeah. That's a thing that just happened. Well that was certainly a... thing. Can... can we go back to the borderline functional, semi-compitent, quasi-heroes who try to conveniently ignore the sickly sweet smell of rotting corpses and that the overall skintone of the city has gone several shades
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Oh man! I can't wait for the sudden but inevitable betrayal of the city by Sternn and co. when the villain bribes them with 100 platinum pieces and a wagon full of barrels of the finest ales.
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I think they perfectly nailed her expression as well. She's not there to be your friend, she knows exactly why you're there, and she knows theres a good chance that as much blustering and swaggering the "heroes" are doing, theres a 75% chance she'll never see them again except as a "Missing Person" poster.
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Nemo2342 posted:Time to stock up on garlic? Did you know that fireballs are just like tiny suns? And that vampires dislike them just as much?
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Feb 7, 2020 20:56
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Actually, I'm surprised Chokes didn't have the specter as an undead Bob Barker telling Rezen she was the next contestant on The Price is Wight before she turned the dial and looked back at the party.
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Chokes may just be planning on stealing them all, closing the thread and having all non-Chokes posters perma-banned, and restarting the thread with a whole host of new puns that Chokes came up with. It's what Sternn would do after all.
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The amount of wight puns is rather ghoulish. I think I liched the thread better before we risked Chokes' wraith. I don't want to be a draugr, but at this point I would exspectre the thread to be locked between updates to stop the puns. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I tried to fit in an aghast pun as well, but it was late, I was tired, and I couldn't think of a way to make it work.
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Or edit the current title and deny any evidence to the contrary.
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Chokes McGee posted:no seriously it was fun but that seems like the right pun to leave off on, leave all graveyard puns behind from now on please and thank you~ Duly noted and filed, with the explicit exception that when you run into a Lich (and I'm sure you will at some point just because of how iconic they are for D&D), you can probably expect some bad lich jokes. Not necessarily from me, just that lich is really easy to make puns with. And hopefully it'll be far enough into the future that everyone will have forgotten this warning.
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Can you charm someone who is already under the effects of a charm spell?
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I guess my question to you, Chokes, is that was there at any point in the first game where Sternn having 17 Int instead of 15 Int would have changed anything? If not, then C, otherwise C, but with a humorous explanation for why he is slightly smarter now. I mean, you said you always intended for him to be the mage so no harm, no foul.
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Hell, I'd settle for a joke where someone demands to see which character sheet and it has the 5 scribled out and a 7 written in its place.
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Hey, down the line, if one or more party members permanently bite it, Chokes has plenty of other ...actually, now I kinda want to see how Trog would be as a Paladin.
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Mar 2, 2020 23:33
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No, Chokes, worry about purity! Show us exactly what BS the game throws at the player so we can cheer you on as you take off the kiddie gloves and tear the game a new one through the art of "gently caress your rules, I have hex editors".
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"Cast Haste on a high-level warrior armed with two axes" is the D&D chainsaw.
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Chokes McGee posted:Well, good news, everyone. I'm not dead from the sars and, in fact, will be updating in a day or two. I expect to have some extra time to work on the LP given that I've literally been welded into my house to prevent me from getting coffee or whatever. I don't know how they welded wood but they managed it. Oh... oh Chokes... I'm so sorry to hear you have DREADED MUMMY DISEASE. If there's anything we can do to help you overcome DREADES MUMMY DISEASE, please don't hesitate to let us know. That is why they welded your door shut, right?
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Wait, did 1e even have druid spells? I thought druids were an offshoot of clerics at that point.
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Just remember to show your work
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