Flushmaster @ Flushmaster @ttrpg.network Posts 2Comments 112Joined 2 yr. ago
I'm sending this to my DM, who is Mexican and currently running an Asian folklore inspired game.
When the DM does it we usually notice because he's normally quite talkative, as DMs tend to be. When a player does it we might not notice for five minutes...
More levels does not, by itself, mean more of anything else. In one system you can get fifty different skills, features, traits, abilities, etc at each level and in another you get one attribute point increased by one at each level up. It's one of those things that is absolutely meaningless without the context of a lot of other information.
That said, for the joke, Asian games tend to use a greater number of levels, either with smaller increases in power or they just don't cap anything and let the numbers get bigger and bigger with little or no functional difference as long as you're fighting things scaled to your level. A little stat boost every level then a special power after ten can be the same as one level where you get all that without the other nine congratulatory dings that don't really mean much.
It says to roll a D6 and then gives eight possible results...
"DM, are we on drugs?"
Someone needs to push THAC0's head under the water then depth charge the pool.
Every system has to decide where to draw the line on the prioritization of realism versus simplicity and speed of play. On one extreme you have the "one page RPG" system where you have exactly two stats and everything uses one or the other, rolled on a single D6. About two thirds of the way to the other extreme you get "Pathfinder has a rule for that," with some systems going into truly absurd levels of detailed minutia in ways that vary from being mote or less mechanically consistent to the old school D&D method of the designers pulling a random table out of their ass for every new thing they don't have a rule for yet and filling it out with whatever nonsense comes to mind in that moment.
Yandere needs the clarification of burning your character sheet from the other game, then shackling you to the table for theirs.
Also thugdere's stance is grounds to have them committed to an asylum for the criminally insane for life. Or just euthanized as a ranid animal, depending on the jurisdiction.
I'm either a cleric from the Abbey of St Whatever passing through Heroshire in my way to hunt monsters in Vampsylvania, or a spellcasting hermit of dubious sanity living in the Witchy Wood.
Probably, although Martin was definitely not the first fantasy author to put a villainous faction/entity in the inhospitable frozen north, nor was he the first to have a villain with a zombie army.
Although I think the Mountains of Muscles are more likely just a border feature slapped in between the Necrolord and the ambiguous barbarians of the northern steppes, which are again a common trope but probably directly drawn from the barbarian tribes of Icewind Dale (Wulfgar's people in Forgotten Realms).
The Desert Island is where all the shipwrecked sailors get washed up. This is the result of all ocean currents in the Tepid and Warm seas eventually converging there. If you miss the exit you go right past into the Giant Whirlpool of Hydrodynamic Implausibly.
Awesome as usual, and bonus points for the bad guy's sucker punch attack actually hitting a main weak point in plate mail.
I also like that Angela throws a hand axe. I've seen a lot of people with melee focused martial characters hauling around multiple javelins as a backup ranged weapon because they do slightly more damage. When they announce in the middle of a fight that they're throwing one or even several in a single turn I always think, "Just where were you carrying those multiple long hafted spears while fighting with both hands this whole time?" Mechanically a high strength character can handle the weight but those things aren't exactly throwing knives you can conveniently slip a half dozen of into your belt or strap to your thighs or arms. A nice tomahawk or two, on the other hand, you can have tucked until your belt.
Kind of. As a concept but not the definition people that use it attribute to it. The act of people getting that definition wrong is itself a memetic behavior.
That would be the actual definition, yes. But many if not most people who use the word "meme" to mean "funny picture and caption" don't actually know what the word meme refers to. So they go by some definition originating from Reddit, Facebook, 4chan, etc.
"They're weird looking dragons, I tell you. They fly really fast but somehow do it without flapping their wings, they have short, fat tails, and when they go really fast they blow jets of fire out their arses!"
My only thought upon seeing this is what an overstimulated eight year old would rattle off the top of their head if you told them to make some wicked awesome homebrew that doesn't worry about any of that "balance" nonsense. Or actual rules at all really. It's just a bunch of words that someone overheard D&D players say mixed with attempts of sounding like a fast talking comedian.
I'm amazed that none of these comments are mentioning the subject line of the post is a reference to "Stop! Hammer time!"
Would she get advantage on the roll if she pointed out that practice under stressful but safe circumstances is both responsible and good preparation for unforseen stressful and potentially dangerous situations? So, really, playing strip poker is the mature and responsible course of action here.
The "twist" was pretty clearly telegraphed to anybody familiar with the genre, but the delivery was good and we didn't have to wait long to get there. Also the cleric and paladin were pretty on top of his smooth talking game, which explains him apparently deciding to just cut straight to the inevitable fight. Because it's pretty clear what bargain he's referring to. Well told and bravo, sir. Now let's see some holy butt kicking!