myrrh

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

feet.

...it's a tarantino thing...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...yeah, i think that's an essential cultural distinction between tabletop and videogame backgrounds; i started seeing the transition in campaign styles in parallel with the advent of structured narratives around the mid-eighties leading into the nineties...

...by contrast, our groups routinely swap DM roles across multiple tables which all share the same more-or-less persistent world, although individual character and DM experiences can vary within the boundaries of narrative coherence...that sustained investment is the fundamental point of of our tabletop campaigns; it distinguishes freeform from prescribed gameplay and is why we chose open-ended campaigns over closed-form boardgames...

...are you familiar with the old RPGA living campaigns?..ignoring the structured campaign setting, that style of pickup game used to be how most folks played...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

...if player characters aren't at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don't have agency: they're just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM's narrative with nothing to show for it afterward...

...mind, i'm not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don't keep...

^(i^ ^already^ ^deal^ ^with^ ^that^ ^sixty-five^ ^hours^ ^every^ ^week^ ^and^ ^remuneration^ ^barely^ ^suffices^ ^to^ ^stay^ ^my^ ^contempt)^

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

...hot tub time machine; absurdly better film than its pitch had any right to be...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

...folks frequently presume i'm a recording on telephone calls; i used to do radio so i guess my extemporaneous diction comes across more composed than anticipated...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

...fair enough; i don't invest my time in campaigns where players don't retain agency over their own characters...

...west marches vs. one-shot campaigns, plenty of tables for both styles...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

...that is f*cking brilliant...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

...i did not but i'd rather not traffic user-hostile sites, regardless...

 

(spent six hours wrestling with AT+T's managed fiber connection last night, cursing like a naboo the entire time)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

...i need a really good bag for about eighty chessex-style dice: any better-suited options out there than the crown royal standard?..

 

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...how would you characterise dominate person cast with indefinite duration?..

...upcasting dominate person at eighth level can maintain up to eight hours with concentration, so i'd be inclined to consider twenty-four hours duration equivalent to a ninth-level spell, but perhaps i'm under-gauging the difference in power between eighth and ninth-level spells?..

...regardless, in this particular case it was cast with indefinite duration plus disadvantage on the saving throw against a hostile player character, which i'd like to translate into mechanical terms: maybe a ninth-level casting with heightened metamagic plus silvery barbs?..

...i'm playing with a DM who has a poor grasp of fifth-edition's mechanical balance and i'd like to help him understand just how adversarial his homebrew and houserule tendencies are leaning, especially for early tier-two gameplay...

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