@mdaviswilson @Gingerblast This. Brilliant book but not necessarily organized from most to least important
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Joseph Delaney
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Joseph Delaney
@Canadian_JACD
HIV, pharmacoepidemiology and Epi methods. he/him. Involved coparent of a great kid. University of Washington (GIM). Occasional TTRPG. All opinions are mine.
Olympia, WA Beigetreten Ağustos 2011
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@Gingerblast there's a lot that's good about the 1e DMG, but I would be real hesitant to read too much into its organization.
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Also it occurs to me that the aging, disease and death are in the first few pages of the DMG, before it even discusses character races or what their abilities mean. This seems like it was very important to the original game, yet nearly completely removed in later editions.
Harmony Ginger@Gingerblast
Though I run in 5e, one small thing I really love about AD&D is that aging and death is accounted for in the DMG and casting certain spells or benefitting from the Haste spell actually ages your character, giving these spells a long-term cost to your character longevity
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This was a really interesting video, for those who do RPG stuff
youtu.be/b05dqEoSMBc?si…
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@BretDevereaux This looks quite bad. I am no expert, but I would be surprised if that was going to fly anytime soon.
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@Gingerblast Yeah, that is enough to create hardship in most people and is lot to give to a stranger unless there were mitigating circumstances (e.g., donations to help with a cancer surgery)
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100% if someone you don't know is giving you more than $1,000 online, you block them because there is a high chance they either expect something in return that you aren't willing to give or they have severe issues and shouldn't be giving you that money in the first place
Toby 🇳🇴@ooooooooooo39
@ClavicularNews I feel like this is what asmon talked about ... Just banning people giving this much money because they are well a special case of special
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@TheBasicExpert1 @NotJonMollison I encourage reading the AD&D DMG. I learn something interesting every time I read it. This quote is on page 230 and is a nice high Gygaxian diatribe about interpretation
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By definition, I don't think you can be a barracks-room lawyer if you read the rules, understand them, and apply them to the game. It seems like the rule zero zealots fit the description. Credit to @NotJonMollison for pointing out what this word actually means.
Daniel@DanielDnDYT
The BroSR: A bunch of rules lawyers telling you to ignore what Gygax said about barracks room lawyers and telling you how great it is to play with a table full of rules lawyers.
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@Gingerblast It feels like this is where Gary would have suggested that the DM is free to adjudicate circumstances and assign odds.
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The defeated GM weeps through clenched teeth as he scrawls "20 more basilisks" into his campaign notebook
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@SandyofCthulhu I like that analysis for larger units, but if the knights are smart they will easily encircle the legionnaires and pick at weaknesses. Make it 500 versus 500 (large enough for anti-cavalry formations or given them anchoring terrain and it is likely a bit different
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Here are my reasons sir.
1) throughout history disciplined infantry has proved superior to heavy cavalry. Cavalry's use is if it can hit the infantry's flank or if the infantry is open order. I would assume the Romans would form up before the fight.
2) the Romans have pila and effective shields. This weapon combination is the best possible against cavalry.
3) if unarmored British with bayonets could hold off huge numbers of French cuirassiers at Waterloo, a group of Romans equal in number to the knights should be able to pull off a defense.
I agree it's possible the knights might win. It would probably depend on the individual combatants training, leadership, and valor. But I'd bet on the infantry. If instead of Romans you put the knights up against a group of English longbowmen, I'd vote for the knights 100% of the time. They slaughter archers.
Daily Roman Updates@UpdatingOnRome
I am the biggest Roman fanboy in the world but what makes you think this?
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@archon Maybe you’ll be good at this new avocation but my own tastes run to your ACKS game
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Clearly I have the intuitions of a bestselling romantasy author and need to put this low-paying RPG gig aside to become a bestselling women's fantasy writer
Alexander Macris@archon
This illustration from ACKS II was intended to be horrifying but accidentally became hilarious after "Morning Glory Milking Farm: A Monster Bait Romance" became a #1 NYT best seller.
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@SandyofCthulhu Ah, I seem to be one of the only people in the OSR crowd who actually likes elves as PCs. I trace it back to Elrond in the Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. I know, I date myself by referring to an era long ago that few now remember
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I loathe elves and always make them villains in games where they appear.
Mr. Confident.@CEOofConfidence
Do you like Elves?
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@archon Non-dwarves exploring a dwarven dungeon and dealing with the locals. Mostly humans, actually, but there is a Dwarven Craft-priest
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@Canadian_JACD Are they non-Dwarves in a Dwarf land or vice versa? Either way sounds good fun. Iceland is basically a real world fantasy land as it is....!
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My players begged me to run a vikings campaign, but then each secretly wanted to be the special snowflake who wasn't a viking -- "I'm the crusader lost in the north." I didn't run the campaign. Subverting tropes can be fun but only if most people are actually playing the tropes.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
Gary Gygax told me (years ago) that every single Drow character was a chaotic-good rebel against the cruel constraints of its culture, and there weren't any evil Drow left to actually BE that culture. STOP PLAYING GOOD DROW "REBELS". Also the note below doesn't contradict what Gary said, because he was joking with me about the "good" player-character Drow which he thought were idiotic. Was he gatekeeping? I prefer to state that he was trying to keep a coherent world view.
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@archon In our current ACKS2 game we are currently mostly fish out of water in a Dwarven area of "fantasy Iceland" and it's been fun
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@Canadian_JACD I wish it were so! They just each wanted all the other guys to be vikings so they could be the cool not-viking. Under similar circumstances we tried playing a "fish out of water" and it didn't last long.
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The more that we play it, the more that I become convinced that ACKS2 is really trying the same thing that Gygax tried with AD&D back in 1980. A toolkit with many (maybe too many) options
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@archon In that case, the lone Viking in the party ends up as a really pivotal character if the party wants to be successful.
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@archon I think that this means that they really wanted a different game. They wanted to be fish out of water in a Viking setting, learning how to survive with all of the cultural and social disadvantages of being outsiders.
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@archon @KasimirUrbanski To be fair, William the Conquerer is a fascinating figure. Both good and bad. Not a bad idea for a show based on him
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@KasimirUrbanski I have forgotten the name but it's on AMC / Amazon and it's about Harold vs William in 1066.
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So I've just watched the first episode of the new Robin Hood series.
I was initially pleasantly surprised that there was no DEI content, no Asian friar Tuck, Maid Marion is not a strong black woman, the sheriff of Nottingham isn't trans.
But then they ruin it all by pretending that in the late 12th century the Saxons were all tree worshiping peasants who were being oppressed by Christian Normans.
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@JodiesJumpsuit If you don't like the service, how does further starving it of resources help?
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A long time ago on here I got into it with someone who tried to defend their fate evasion as progressive-based-protest against the then-current quality of service. That’s the level of self awareness we’re dealing with.
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Why is it the people most in my experience who advocate for fare evasion inevitably are adult children of the comfortable middle class who treat it like one of their few thrills in life? Never see it from someone who wouldn’t be able to pay the fine if caught.
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@Gingerblast It is why I find "story games" less fun, because intrusions into the action to change the narrative undermine this element in the favor of a better "story"
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@Gingerblast It is also hard to rewrite the clues on the fly and it can easily destroy the "persistent world" element of verisimilitude -- the idea that there is an objective world that the players interact with that has fixed events
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Don't do this. It's ok if players figure things out- it doesn't ruin the game at all and if anything, it makes a fun story.
Players are allowed to be right!
ᛉᚠ Benny's Gaming Attic ᚠᛉ@BenThePaladin
@Gingerblast I'll never forget the time my DM ran a murder mystery. I had notes, motives listed, interrogation notes, everything you needed... Only to find out his plan was "whoever the last person y'all picked as the murderer would have been the murderer". Totally ruined the session
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