Oh gods Gabe is /tg/savvy

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As all good adventurers should be. Which is a good thing because she's going on one now

Wouldn't the bandit just have to keep his eyes open to keep from being blinded?

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Oh I don't know, having a spotlight glowing through the top of your eyes wouldn't be very pleasant I'd imagine.

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She's a fa/tg/uy, just like the rest of us!
Is our little bundle of Adagio-hair also 40k-equipped?

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Oh I haven't 40k'd since... My god, 90's/early 2000's. Wow. I feel so old now. Hard to say what she'd play though. Space Marines for the quality over quantity approach, or orks for the humor.

... Actually, I don't think she'd be a 40k girl, she'd prefer Mutant Chronicles!

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IG and AdMech for this man. Wife's a dirty xenos. Eldar and Nids. ... But she's been at it ten years longer than me so I wind up with my backside kicked in fairly often.

Still, As a long-time D&D player and such, it pleases me to see more /tg/ folk.

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A while after me and my buddies shelved our 40ks, I read the fourth edition of Shadowrun, just for kicks. Then, years later, I started reading a, at the time, newish iteration of Mutant (classical Swedish rpg), which I suggested we played. We hadn't seen anyone play p&p rpgs before, I was the only one who had any idea how to the game worked, mostly because I had picked up the basic rules of DnD from playing lots and lots or Neverwinter Nights, and it was a completely blind attempt. it wasn't a very good choice of games, since it was lacking in rules and kinda meant for rpg veterans, but I certainly learned to improvise

After a while, for pretty sad reasons, we moved over to Fantasy Flight's new Star Wars rpg, which is really cool, and we're about to pop our DnD cherry pretty soon. As always, it's up to me to DM. At least now I've seen how it's done with Acq Inc. I'm not at Chris Perkins' level, but with my self taught skills I've picked up a lot of tricks from him

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We love Acq Inc.! Followed them from the podcasts to their PAX games, to the short-lived Acq Inc. show, and now on to the C-Team. I would suggest, entirely out of personal bias, 3.5 edition D&D, though the learning curve is steeper, I feel the payoff is grander since there's a lot more material to work with both officially and unofficially (options and chop-shopping and customization!). The 3.5e homebrew community is deep-rooted, and tends to understand practical balance and such better than a coastline of wizards.

Though, Acq Inc. and the lot, since they're also technically product-demonstration, play 5th edition. It is easier to get into, especially if your crew's not entirely solid on their P&P ability. Either way, you should have a whole lot of fun! Glad to see more folk joining in.

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Yeah, I conjured 3.5 from the ether. Like, all of it, including a whole bunch of homebrew. it was... kinda intimidating. 4th edition looks fun in it's own way, but it feels like they dumbed it down without streamlining it, which is why you usually 'dumb' something down. Take a look at Edge Of The Empire if you want a game that's done minimal dumbing down and maximal streamlining.

We're gonna play 5th. It's what we've bought, and if we really want something that was in 3.5 in 5, we can probably find a way to integrate it without breaking the game. The rules don't really support it, but my friend is gonna play a really pretty half-orc-half-ogre-lady, who's a paladin of Sune, with really high charisma with a glorious, flowing, fiery mane. So the most beautiful 2.6 meters, 250 kg moutain of tusk-adorned, armored mountain of muscles this side of Icewind Dale

We kinda only make weird characters. In Star Wars, he plays Tuco Starfighter, a sombrero-adorned, pyromaniacal jawa demolitions-expert, while I'm the pilot and combat-medic, a moody 15 year old girl with latent force-powers who sulks when she doesn't get her way

On that, as I'm sure you can imagine, I love cyborgs, magical, technological, or otherwise. Where do I look if I want rules for magitek cyborgs or something in DnD?

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I'd lay out the books for you myself but they're on my computer, which is currently mobo-fried at the moment. Using a laptop without my beloved resources compiled over closer to twenty years than ten. There are rules for constructs and the like which can be adapted. There's plenty of homebrew for this sort of thing, as well, if you lack the books. If you've heard of or follow the Order of the Stick webcomic, their website has... essentially the largest degree of the homebrew community in its forums, whole sections for it. If you still haven't found what you want by the time I've gotten my computer up and running I'll toss some book titles at you!

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well your eyelids are still over the eyeball and not obscured by bone, so it would still light up your eyeball and interfere with vision to a (slightly) lesser extent. Also it'd be instinct to close then cover your eyes due to the shock and pain, even if he then overcomes instinct and opens his eyes he still got distracted during combat.

Light is a touch spell. Enjoy grappling a melee fighter as a caster while you attempt to physically peel his eyelids open and concentrate to cast a level 1 spell inside AOO range.

3.5 is broken as hell but it's not quite that broken.

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I know of Order of the Stick, and what I've read of it I like (by the way, have you read Darths and Droids?). I might check that out.

Like I said, I have a lot of 3.5 material on my harddrive, so if you know where I should start looking, I'd love to hear it

Maybe I should follow that guide on how to make creatures into your player character. I'll just find a unicorn, combine it with rules for magitek body parts, and I'd get to play Gabe as a DnD character!

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Is it? I must me misremembering. Oh well, she can cast light on a pair of contact lenses, then shove them into his eyes with mage-hand. Or mage-hoof as the case might be in Equestria. This is all of course assuming and the game they're playing is actually DnD 3.5.

Hmm. Mage hand isn't a fire-and-forget or spell like ray of frost or magic missile, but going by what unicorns can do, it probably is in Equestria

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Mage Hand has a maximum move distance of 15 ft (2.5 ft/s), which is pretty much impossible to accurately place on a flailing target in combat. It also specifies unattended items, which it ceases to be the moment he bats it out of the air.

The only combat use for Mage Hand I've found was activating traps, or one time when we were fighting a tank (like, actual on-treads tank). The mage flew onto the chassis, peeked through the windshield slit, pointed between the drivers, and Mage Handed the rear hatch open.

I am not in DnD or war hammer 40k ...

so... what is /tg/savvy ?

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Well, whatever the case, it worked in the game they were playing in the gaiden

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I was gonna say Tabletop Games, but a google search reveals it as Traditional Games. Board games in other words. Probably includes p&p rpgs.

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Oh for sure, casters can get up to all kinds of hilariously broken dickery. You just have to be very careful about it.

The most hilarious one is that 3.5 places no limit on active contingencies, and they don't continue to consume the relevant slots while being stored. They're only limited by duration (days), so you can literally have a number of active contingencies equal to your total 6th level slots times caster level.

"I charge the wizard."

"Roll twenty DC 21 reflex saves."

"..."

"And if you survive that, roll twenty more for closing the next 5 feet."

"..."

"And if you survive that, just before connecting, you get hit by a hundred magic missiles."

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The first game me and my friends played were pretty broken as well, as is the crafting in Edge Of The Empire. in six hours, I can literally make a pair of knuckles more dangerous than a lightsaber with junk that I find in a forest

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Thanks for answer

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No problem

Lolz. Git shrekt Spike.

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... Sorry, but I'm into coding. What's git when it's not a British insult or programming collaboration?

edit: Also, what's shrekt?

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Its more of a gaming term. Git=get shrekt=rekt=pwnd(if you dont know what pend means, what rock have you been living under?!)

I guess its more of a mix of gaming terms and mlg terms......

Also, WOOT!! CODING IS AWESOME!!! I actually got into that a little bit, and I am gonna learn all of it so I can get a linux.....

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"Get a Linux"? Now I feel like you're just testing me

I'm a junior programmer though. Possibly even an aspiring junior programmer. Not really an impressive range of skills.

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I barely know how to code a repeating square flying across a screen, so you have waaaaay more experiance than me. And, in all honesty, Linux has not only better security, but also has better programing than the crap windows shoves down your throat.

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Meh. I learned a bit of C++ and C#, but I mostly ended up working with JS, and you can't really tie that to an OS. I just thought... if you have a pc, you can just get Linux right away if you want to right?

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Mostly it's the library. Gabe has transferred most of her media over to her magical boombox, which she'll probably also turn into a home theater set eventually. And her guitar is safe and sound in Canterlot, thankfully. I can't think of a fate bad enough for someone who walks around smashing people's guitars.

Speaking of which. I should write a fic where a video game characters kicks Tirek's ass

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I have a laptop and about to hook up a PC. The real problem is the coding.

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https://www.codecademy.com/

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Now I'm interested. The last coding I've done was in Commodore Basic, so I don't know diddly about code. But my go-to OS here is Linux (using the Gnome GUI). I don't really see a connection between Linux and coding, though I'm sure there are a lot of coding tools available to Linux users.
What am I not getting in this discussion?

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I'm not sure either. I guess coding specifically doesn't work better on Linux, but you might prefer programming and development as a whole on Linux. If you're a cool kind of programmer who don't need no tutorials and beginner's tools that you get when using OSX or Windows, you might prefer it. At least that's my impression as someone who's never used it extensively; Linux is by experts and exclusively for experts. At least that's how a lot of people want it to seem

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That might have been true some years ago, but a lot of modern Linux distributions are as easy to use as the mainstream OS choices.
With WinXP no longer being supported, I've had no problems finding usable old hardware that won't support more recent OSs, but that will run Linux. It's not so much a geek's OS any more, as it is the cheap-skate's.
< Ah, ain't cheap. Ah'm prudent!)

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Oh sure, but there's a lot of people who'd like it to keep it's reputation as an OS that's exclusively for experts. I often feel like I wanna use, if only in support of something other than a huge, international conglomerate

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Alright, Ill check it out then!!!

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Ah, I was told full use of a linux required knowledge of the arts of programming..........

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Well, the same could be said for any computer and any software.

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Well, possibly... I know that it helps quite a lot to be familiar with the text-based command console (somewhat similar to MS-DOS) but that isn't really programming. In any case, there are a lot of different distributions of Linux, and learning one won't give you a complete understanding of them all, but I believe they all provide programming tools.
And it's a free download, so all you're burning is time and brain cells.

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I meant custom programming.

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Oh.....

A light spell cast on a rock is useful in all sorts of situations.

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No doubt, but please, enlighten us

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Ooh, I can't remember specifics of exactly how we've misused them, but we did toss them at enemies and stuff to distract them, and of course you can always put a light rock under your helm and block most of the light.

The biggest, and brilliantest misuse of magic spells was when my buddy decided to kill a dragon with a single gold piece. He cast weighty chest on it, which was supposed to make the object it was cast on weigh as much as the object that it was touching. As I recall, he cast the spell while he was flipping the coin in the air. When it landed on the dragon's head (he got a good to-hit roll), it immediately weighed as much as the whole dragon, and punched right through its skill.

That might have been bending the rules a little bit; on the other hand, it was so creative the DM allowed it.

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Ooh. I'm gonna remember that if I ever play a wizard. That's a good story

The only time I had to be really interpretive with the rules was when I was DMing Star Wars. The group was entering the private booth at a fighting pit to have a conversation with someone whose body guard was a plant from an enemy faction, and one of the players essentially had a flamethrower filled with super glue.

DM(me): "Okay, you enter the fairly sound-insulated but not sound-proof booth at the ready, and you have surprise on your side as the body guard takes a moment to realize who you are and why you're here."
Player 1, 2, and 3 at the same time: "I run up and clock the body guard in the face!"/"I attack him with my vibro spear!"/"I blast him with my multi-goo gun!"
Everyone: "..."
DM: "... This is gonna be amazing."

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There... is no joke

It's just me fanwanking to my own stuff

And no. I don't know what ask mutalee is, but it sounds like a zerg.

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heh, reminds me of the time I was playing Star Wars as a member of an obscure race that looked more like a small fuzzy animal than anything intelligent. Anyway it came in really handy when the group got captured by pirates and they managed to pass my character off as a pet. Needless to say, giving a trained engineer pretty much unlimited access to your ships and base is a really bad thing...

I once had a cleric/something else and I had a spell where I could sacrifice someone to gain one stat point, but I had no idea how to go about it because I was evil and my party was a bunch of good people. I ended up buying a bag that spawned infinite brain-dead bodies, and I named it my 'bag of infinite retards'

Sorry for the language