4.Fail satire project.

Akula · Post by **Akula** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:43 pm

I thought you would play this straight out of the DMG, without the errata. Then someone can find it in the middle of the game, and someone else can comment on how the math must not have just worked.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:59 pm

Akula wrote:I thought you would play this straight out of the DMG, without the errata. Then someone can find it in the middle of the game, and someone else can comment on how the math must not have just worked.

Particularly after the best guy tried while everyone stood around and then it still Failed.

Player: "Hey, while you were doing everything for us in game look what I found."

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:24 pm

Don't forget that your basic attacks--which will be your AoOs--are auto-attacks. GODSPEED, MEN.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:29 pm

Psychic Robot wrote:Don't forget that your basic attacks--which will be your AoOs--are auto-attacks. GODSPEED, MEN.

Wait, wouldn't that title go to your best at will?

TheDarkFuzz · Post by **TheDarkFuzz** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:23 pm

To whom it may concern, this is the RPOL link.

http://rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=37620&date=1246576919

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:26 am

Excellent, I've sent you a PM

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:04 pm

And asked to join.

TheDarkFuzz · Post by **TheDarkFuzz** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:45 pm

Cool, everyone but Mask is in right now.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:51 pm

Cross posted, but how do you do aliases and such there?

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:52 am

Okay, so I'm in with a Human Str Cleric.

I figger that way the only options will I ever need will be
1. Righteous Brand,
2. Move then Righteous Brand or
3. Move then Healing Word THEN Righteous Brand.

I'm unsure of the desired satirical direction - so I could just be effective that way, - which works well if my time gets tight.

I could also outright play the "brand manager" concept as I misunderstand what the power name is supposed to mean and instead obsess over my highest skill of athletics and Kord's endorsement deals and anarchronistic out-of-genre sports references.

I'm also unsure how "core only" we are, or what "core" even means anymore.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:53 pm

What are good places to post logs?

TheDarkFuzz · Post by **TheDarkFuzz** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:18 pm

It's PbP, so in essence it will log itself, but if we want somewhere to post it here we can just use the discussion thread under "In The Trenches" that we already have or make a new one just for logs from the game.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:44 pm

TheDarkFuzz wrote:It's PbP, so in essence it will log itself, but if we want somewhere to post it here we can just use the discussion thread under "In The Trenches" that we already have or make a new one just for logs from the game.

I mean taking it, turning it into a script, and hosting that somewhere. The idea is to have it not immediately identifiable as satire or Den work (though that should be obvious from continued reading).

Which means in terms of cheap ass websites (as in free).

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:51 pm

Make it a Live Journal site.

Post the logs of events via copy-pasta. Then put the date and background info based on the "poster's" opinion of what is going on.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:31 pm

Judging__Eagle wrote:Make it a Live Journal site.

Post the logs of events via copy-pasta. Then put the date and background info based on the "poster's" opinion of what is going on.

Huh?

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:40 pm

You want a free place to host the logs of the game?

Then setting up a LJ account is a good way to do this.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:42 pm

Judging__Eagle wrote:You want a free place to host the logs of the game?

Then setting up a LJ account is a good way to do this.

I got that part. But the rest of it made no sense. Mostly because I don't touch the 'bend over for stalkers' sites with an eleven foot pole.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:26 am

Well, the idea is that this is a satire project, right?

One really good way of doing it would be along the lines of Voltaire's Candide. You would narrate the observations that you would want the reader to see.

In Candide, the main character's philosophy is one that he was taught when he was that "everything is for the greater good", and that ill things are still furthering good, when really, they were ill things.

In this case, the narrator could talk about their observations (all in satire of course, with them honestly not sure what is wrong, or complaining that certain things always fail, but not knowing why) about the game.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:54 am

"I try to disarm the target."
"You fail."
"But you didn't even roll!"
"Sorry, you fail. Only a level 17 fighter can disarm his target."

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:05 am

Psychic Robot wrote:"I try to disarm the target."
"You fail."
"But you didn't even roll!"
"Sorry, you fail. Only a level 17 fighter can disarm his target."

Lols.

And still not getting those references.

TheDarkFuzz · Post by **TheDarkFuzz** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:28 pm

@JE: I totally get that. Basically an LJ for copypasta with an added opinion from the POV of a player whose base assumption is that 4e is a good system, and who is willing to see even the parts that are total failures as being good parts of a good whole.

@Roy: There is no "disarm" maneuver in 4th edition, and enemy equipment is essentially non-interactive once they die. So until you get that one random 17th level Fighter power that makes an enemy drop his weapon and lets you pick it up (I forget what it's called) you literally can't grab things out of people's hands.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:50 pm

TheDarkFuzz wrote:@JE: I totally get that. Basically an LJ for copypasta with an added opinion from the POV of a player whose base assumption is that 4e is a good system, and who is willing to see even the parts that are total failures as being good parts of a good whole.

@Roy: There is no "disarm" maneuver in 4th edition, and enemy equipment is essentially non-interactive once they die. So until you get that one random 17th level Fighter power that makes an enemy drop his weapon and lets you pick it up (I forget what it's called) you literally can't grab things out of people's hands.

*facepaws* No, not that. The LJ bit. The disarm is easy to understand.

And of course, when you do get that no one knows what it does.

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:54 pm

We could do the LiveJournal summations in a sort of "Real World: 4e" sort of way, where the players out of character talk about what's going on in the world and how much they hate it

Also, PM sent.