Tar_Alcaran

Damn, I made this exact joke 1 minute more slowly.

With how wide dwarves are, their asses must naturally be huge. It’s just that you’re too hightist to notice.

Irl London has the most cameras per Capita and per Area. It’s not entirely fictional

I don’t want “lots of the safety tools”. I want something useful and effective, not just heaping a whole bunch on and assuming more is better.

Honestly, you only need three at most: a way to set limits beforehand, a way to calibrate during and a safe word for when it goes wrong. Thats not “lots”

Ah,the story of the worst DM ever, an inability to say no, and a table that doesn’t actually use the rulebook at all.

My friend, this is Call of Cthulhu, where “OP” means you die two sessions after the rest.

Breaking Hasbro IP is chaotic good though

Paranoia isn’t so much “mean” as it is calling your best friend “fuckface” in front of his mom.

So you can survive up to three stabs, but not four.

Or more hilariously, 18 full seconds of being attacked.

in CoC, player characters are called Investigators. So basically, 1d4 player characters die when he’s nearby.

That’s why Cthulhu (in CoC) has an attack that “kills 1d4 investigators per turn”

They couldn’t cook this mutant pineapple

You’re… Reading a lot of things I never said.

I can fucking tell you run a 30 second timer. This is absolutely the mindset of someone with a 30 second timer.

You want everyone to have quick turns, so you set up a timer

The timer wasn’t imposed from upon the high seat of the Almighty GM, it’s a thing everyone at the table decided on, because we all want to keep the combat flowing. I know it must look impossible to you, but all the players like taking their turn, and not waiting. Hell, one of the players brings the thing.

one of your players is using fireball over and over. As if it’s a default action they took due to being rushed. Like I said would happen in the first place.

Nobody is “taking Fireball as a default action”. I said nobody wanted to wait for someone to look up a commonly used spell yet again, when you could have done that before, or just made a note or something. You literally just made this up after ignoring half of my paragraph.

I find it interesting that you say “the onus is on [the players]” as a benefit, because the main problem you listed for actually talking to them is that they might say you were at fault if you forget. You want it to be that, if anything goes wrong, it’s only because of what other people did. You don’t want to be responsible.

You are right that nobody at the table, including me, wants to take the responsibility for someone else paying attention. We’re all adults, and neither our children or parents are at the table. We’re there to play a game, not to constantly remind other adults of what they’re supposed to do.

Also, small detail, it’s a 30 second timer to START. We don’t watching someone do stuff, we mind watching someone look at paper.

I don’t understand why people wanting things to move along upsets you so much? Is a timer such a horrible thing that it actually makes you angry at someone who doesn’t play like you do? I called the reply snobby because you seem to believe we are Doing It Wrong, and that’s an incredibly snobby thing to do.

Wow that’s an incredibly snobby snobby answer, and I’ll just assume it just came out wrong somehow.

And honestly, I couldn’t agree less. I don’t want to make everyone’s problem that Sally Slowpoke isn’t paying attention or taking a super long time. I want them to fix it themselves.

Poking the next person creates a reliance, and worse, an excuse (“they didn’t poke me, how was I supposed to know?”), putting down a timer makes it clear that the onus is on you. If you didn’t pay attention, that’s your fault.

And I’ll go one further: I think it’s very disrespectful to make everyone wait while you read stuff that you could have read earlier. If you need to check the exact requirements of some obscure spell, sure. But if you need to look up Fireball for the 6th time this game and we all have to wait again while you do it, that’s kind of a dick move.

I run a 30 second timer before you have to start doing stuff. If you’re not finished, that’s fine, but you have to do a thing within 30 seconds. I don’t want everyone waiting because you didn’t prepare, when they all did.

The idea of a timer is that you already do that, so that you’re ready to go when yours comes up.

And I don’t know any GM who won’t give you a break from the timer if the person who went before you changed something huge. Like, if someone summoned a demon, you blew up a bridge, you get some extra time to work out a new turn…

5e, the game that’s basically written around epic heroism isn’t gritty and dark enough? Shock. Gasp.

Is there an official Dark Sun setting for 5e yet?

I hate spell components if they’re not part of the plot, so we don’t use them in the game. If a spell lists no value, just assume you pull a pinch of something out of somewhere, and if you’re stripped, you no longer have it. If a spell lists a value that’s less than half a percent of your wealth, I see above.

The only time I care is when it’s something super specific or expensive. Like “a hair from the target” or “1000gp worth of [thing]”.

The arsenic book covers, on the other hand, are very much still risky. Mostly because it does in fact rub off

Buying armor is like buying a suit, and all the answers are kind of similar.

You can get a cheap mass produced one, but it won’t fit as well as a tailored one, and that won’t be as good as a custom made one. You can wear someone else’s (within reason), as long as they’re mostly the same size, but it won’t be great.

A gambeson or arming coat (typo before) is similar, off the rack is fine, but it’ll fit much better if you have it custom made. And like bras, being a woman is expensive here. I bought a good one and modified it myself.

I got my armor custom made by a guy in Ukraine like 15 years ago, the whole thing was 6000 euros which was a huge bargain. But if you just want a breastplate for occasional use (larp, cosplay, etc) getting one online and accepting it’s kinda awkward is very much an option. If you need it to actually stop swords (reenactment, HEMA) that’s still an option, but you’ll need to be much more selective.

If no boob shape, then boobs squished.

Hi, lady here who owns and wears armor sometimes. There are a few things wrong with this.

(Prefacing that only a very very small number of women historically wore armor)

You’ll find that basically ALL medieval plate bulges out in the chest. That is specifically because dome shapes are stronger, but also for ease of movement. A flat plate will make it harder to bring your shoulder back (or you’ll need to make a bigger arm hole).

You’ll also find that most people who do stuff while in plate armor tend not to carry a lot of fat, and since boobs are mostly fat, women who wear armor “for a living”, and are thus swinging pole arms quite a lot, tend not to be very busty.

Thirdly, the main difference between my armor and the armor the guys are wearing is not in the plate, but in the padding underneath. I have a gambeson and armor coat that is thicker above and above my breasts than right in front. There’s basically a boob-slot in the padding, so that a hit to my chest gets absorbed by my body instead of my boobs.