It's Personal...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:55 am

Are your bones like... fine porcelain, Koumei? Or has Australia's death level reached "This continent is now Nintendo hard" levels?

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:42 am

EDIT: Actually, wait. It's not worth getting into. I've had a streak of uncommon good fortune for the past couple weeks, I'm not wasting time arguing with low people.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:01 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:Are you bones like... fine porcelain, Koumei? Or has Australia's death level reached "This continent is now Nintendo hard" levels?

Prak, haven't you read the Real World Player's Manual? A roll of 1 - 4 on the d20 dex roll is altomatically a critical failure! The real world DM's a bitch, you know. And that critical failure table is murder! It makes Rolemaster seem mild by comparison.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:19 pm

Koumei wrote:I fell while walking the dog, and fractured the neck of my right shoulder in three places. So the arm is in a cuff and collar? A sling-type thing, for about 4-8 weeks.

Yeah, my dominant arm. I can still manage the essentials - typing, pouring tea, vacuming (yes, I helped clean the house with one arm in a sling. It's not a blank cheque for laziness), carrying shopping, masturbating and so on.

But annoyingly, drawing is somewhat out of the question.

From what you described, my father had a very similar injury about 20 years ago. Shoulder injuries are a bitch, but it should heal to about 95% of where it was beforehand if you don't fuck with it.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:42 pm

tzor wrote:Prak, haven't you read the Real World Player's Manual? A roll of 1 - 4 on the d20 dex roll is altomatically a critical failure! The real world DM's a bitch, you know. And that critical failure table is murder! It makes Rolemaster seem mild by comparison.

Don't forget the respawn times are horrific, basically forever.

There was this one guy who respawned in like 3 days, but had a special hook-up.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:58 pm

Doom wrote:
tzor wrote:Prak, haven't you read the Real World Player's Manual? A roll of 1 - 4 on the d20 dex roll is altomatically a critical failure! The real world DM's a bitch, you know. And that critical failure table is murder! It makes Rolemaster seem mild by comparison.
Don't forget the respawn times are horrific, basically forever.

There was this one guy who respawned in like 3 days, but had a special hook-up.

It's worse than that, I actually read he was related to the DM...

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:08 pm

Respawn? I thought we were using the PermaDeath rule set?

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:18 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:It's worse than that, I actually read he was related to the DM...

I heard he was actually a DMPC. (I.E. A player character run by the DM, as opposed to a non player character run by the DM.)

Actually, considering that he had to return to the astral plane 40 days after the spell, I'd would say it was just a pretty crappy triggered delay gate spell.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:42 pm

sabs wrote:Respawn? I thought we were using the PermaDeath rule set?

Nah, this old school, man. The rules in the DMG are off limits to the players, although various subclasses of the Scientist class are making slow progress at figuring some of the 'real' rules out.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:20 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:Are your bones like... fine porcelain, Koumei? Or has Australia's death level reached "This continent is now Nintendo hard" levels?

That was always the case, but more detail as to what happened:

I was taking the rhinoc- I mean, the dog, for a walk. He started galloping, so I put my foot down to slow him down, slid on wet grass and mud, then went sailing through the air, arm still outstretched holding the lead, and landed on the shoulder more-or-less directly.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:44 pm

Ah, yes. I forgot you're tiny. I didn't know your dog is huge. This makes sense now. Hope you feel better soon.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:49 pm

Yeah, he's half Kelpie, with the other half consisting of Boxer, Dalmatian and Tractor. As well as some "Misc" like all good dogs have.

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:11 pm

My British Literature teacher has moved the final exam to the week before. Then he reduced the exam from 5 days to 3. Then he said he would grant no extensions.

I was retaking my lit courses in order to better be able to transfer to a 4 year, but I will be happy if I never see the inside of a classroom again...

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:14 pm

Doom wrote:
sabs wrote:Respawn? I thought we were using the PermaDeath rule set?
Nah, this old school, man. The rules in the DMG are off limits to the players, although various subclasses of the Scientist class are making slow progress at figuring some of the 'real' rules out.

Gah we're playing MTP?
That freaking sucks.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:10 pm

sabs wrote:Gah, we're playing MTP? That freaking sucks.

Oh, it's been clear ever since the Quantum Mechanics 'errata' the MC sprang on us that he's just been making shit up. There clearly is no robust subatomic particle system in the DMG, but the MC keeps pretending there is. Flavors of quarks? Are you fucking kidding me? I just wish I was part of the team who put together that awesome LHSC build so I could watch the MC improvise in real time.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:18 pm

And he totally keeps changing the rules. You remember the 4 base elements phase?

Wait, you've seen the DMG?

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:58 pm

sabs wrote:And he totally keeps changing the rules. You remember the 4 base elements phase?

Actually it was 5; PC's aren't supposed to know about the 20 sided die.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:49 pm

Yeah, I remember the 4 base elements phase, very basic. Then there was the edition after that, where everything was created out of elements. Then came the edition after that, where the devs simplified it all down to just three things: protons, neutrons, and electrons. But this new .5 edition crap, where there are like neutrinos and quarks and a jillion other particles is just too complicated for the newbie; I hear they're going try a box set with just superstrings or something.

I also remember proponents of the new designs got called all sorts of names with their insistence that it was all a big conspiracy theory of gravity fairies. They were totally wrong until they were, like totally right.

But one piece of advice: don't take any levels in ID, it's a trap class filled with trap options.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:04 pm

sabs wrote:And he totally keeps changing the rules. You remember the 4 base elements phase?

Yeah, but that wasn't a rules change, that was just an early (bad) guess at what the hell might be written on the other side of the screen. I'm pretty sure that the game was detailed to the atomic level, which is why it wasn't until those powergamers split the atom for advantage that we started finding all kinds of truly bogus particles. But the real problem is that the rules for light must be messed up on some level, which is a problem since we use it every second of every day. This wave/particle bullshit is clearly the result of an inconsistency somewhere that no-one will admit to, and Special Relativity totally smacks of a kludge (I suspect the MC spent so much time writing up this solar system that he wants a big head start before he has to do another one in any detail).

Red_Rob · Post by **Red_Rob** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:59 pm

Doom wrote:The rules in the DMG are off limits to the players, although various subclasses of the Scientist class are making slow progress at figuring some of the 'real' rules out.

Most scientists are just powergamers, dumping Str, Dex and Con for more Int. Hawking's player went a bit far though.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:44 am

Yeah, Hawkings is definitely a munchkin, total one-trick pony, min/maxxed all to heck.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:33 am

Hawking isn't that smart. He's probably looking stuff up on that little computer he has.

On a personal note: I now have curtains on all my windows and throw rugs in the two living areas of my apartment. It is starting to look like a place where someone lives...

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:34 am

hawking has 4 con because he's a cripple
haha get it

no but really it's a shame that his mind wasn't born into a stronger body

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:38 am

Minus a hundred points to everyone for the bad jokes. Unless you laughed at any of them: plus a thousand points to you and whoever made you laugh.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:05 am

Hawkings is the prime example why Unearthed Arcana shouldn't have been printed.