Lurker > ocelot51

I wouldn't take a job where parking isn't free and also not covered by the company.

Avatar has a whole park dedicated to it in Disney World even.

Either the industry self regulated or the government was going to step in and do it. Basically could have been much worse than what we ended up with.

For some reason this sounds like a Cr1tikal quote.

He forced her to go home finally. Hopefully it wasn't too late!

My goddamn coworker whom I share a cube wall with is sneezing and coughing up a storm and has the gall to stay and work. Work from home, lady! Our boss all but told you to. I refuse to get sick two days before Christmas.

Twilight Town isn't so bad. Chapter 2 though was boring as hell and I hate having to slog through it to get to Glitzville.

When Puzzle Fighter came to mobile it had a lot of potential. All it really needed was some AI matches and it would have been great. But instead it was online matches only and it shut down in like half a year.

It's my favorite Pixar movie for sure.

You can tell that they just wanted to show off their fancy sound tech with that narrated opening line. The game was secondary.

If you want to share things on Beyond with your players you need to invite them to a create a character in a campaign within it. Don't let them delete that character either because they'll lose the access.

Your players HAVE to be driving the action. If they don't react properly to a simple question like "What's your character doing?" without more prompting then you guys need to find something else to play.

Geez, you're a fine DM. Just relax and ready to be a little reactive. That's all there is to it.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

A tip for dming, a nat 20 doesn't have to guarantee success.

It does if you're making an attack roll. The opposite is also true and you'll always miss on a 1. This is never true for skill checks or saves though.

I don't understand. Trailing the goblins to their lair is a narrative footnote. It *should* be quick. This whole section of the module is Get Ambushed -> Trail to Lair -> Scour Lair of Goblins. This whole bit would be a session for my group and a strong majority of that would be in the cave.

Craig's Casino Royale.

I think part of your problem is you're modifying the normally very easy to run Phandelver module too much as a new DM. Just run it stock! No need to craft random and branching encounter tables when they're not part nor a significant element of your campaign.

Take a step back here. DMing doesn't need to be so stressful. I spend about 20 minutes prepping for my weekly in-person game: Estimate how far I think they'll get, then read up on the relevant sections of the campaign. I have my laptop out which I'll use to keep Beyond up (I have the campaign book up and tabs for monster stats), in addition to Discord where I keep notes and post up things I want players to see. I have a roll-out grid map I draw onto basically only when combat occurs, because that is the only time actually seeing the map matters.

Getting newish players to roleplay is a skill. It takes time to coax it out of them. Constantly prompt them in that case until they start to do things themselves. Ask them things about their characters, and definitely reward them for playing along.

Beyond is hooked up to Twitch because it's run by Curse, which until last year was a Twitch subsidiary, making them competitors.

Here's a tip about perception checks: unless a creature is actively trying to hide via a stealth roll, everyone else is aware of them. Unless something is actively hidden, when the players turn over a room, just describe everything vaguely interesting without a roll. Maybe prompt them to look harder with a hint if something is actually hidden.

Also everyone in your party has good stealth rolls? A bog standard wolf has a +3 to its own perception and also gets to roll with advantage because they have good noses and ears. The odds of one catching anyone but a rogue are very high.

Another general DM tip is don't prompt your players to do something if doing that thing doesn't produce anything. If there's nothing to find in the river then prompting your players to check it makes it look like you're jerking them around. (You're probably not, just to be clear)

I'm making some assumptions on your session so correct me if I'm wrong, but why set up a scene if nothing is going to happen in it? If moving to a new area, checking it, having nothing happen, and moving on is what happens, just skip it and get to the interesting parts.

I recommend either using D&D beyond so you can quickly look up spells on the fly or just have your players write down or print out their spells. I *think* Magic Missile is the only (attacking) spell that doesn't require an attack roll or a saving roll.

Most vets would assume that's how MM works out of hand because that's a legacy thing (except in early 4e, where it did require a roll and angered a lot of people), but the wording of all spell descriptions describe how they operate, and MM omits the need to roll. Check the text on Eldritch Blast for example, it explicitly calls for a ranged attack roll.

I still drag and drop, personally.

How did Hank miss with Magic Missile? That's a spell that just hits, no roll required. It can only be deflected by specific things like the Shield spell.

They better have an ad free tier or I will drop it outright. Fuck ads.

She was really good in Californication.

We knew it was a timed exclusive when it was announced.

So who gets to decide the price then is the real question.

Pre-order it and you can get her original costume as DLC.

I enjoyed the hell out of the show. I was anticipating it before its premier and I loved it start to finish. It's at its strongest right up until Jesse is introduced imo

This played out like a horror movie. Goddamn

I'm low key enjoying his stupid Lloyd Christmas sweater.

The Battlehawks have a fun name but lame colors.

Real concerned about that person about to lacerate themselves with a handsaw

coh posted...

Can I take this opportunity to say fuck public restrooms with motion sensor based sinks

How about going into a stall with motion sensor flushing and finding out that the previous user somehow avoided flushing that way? I can't unbutton my fly without setting it off!

Ethically perhaps, but not while capitalism is a thing.

No one wants to be a dishwasher. Some people have to get what they can get.

One of the guys in my FFXIV raid group was a high ranking officer in Goon Squad, one of the largest and storied alliances in that game. He has a million stories about it and you can hear the trauma in his voice.

AlecSkorpio posted...

Another generic anime sword fighter, then?

I'm low key rooting for it to be Adol from Ys tbh

MadWorld (It's still a great game despite this)

Sword cancel in Halo 2.

luigi13579 posted...

The final dungeon in RPGs. That seems to happen a lot.

Every time I resolve to play FFIX, I always stop right before Memoria. Every time.

Was this really a trailer for a trailer? What a world we live in.

I enjoy it a lot. Yoshimitsu is my jam.

I'm with ya buddy. I saw a cloud of gnats outside yesterday too. Bleh.

Having gone to an elementary school play just last week to see my niece, it was amazing, but not for the right reasons.

I found Initial D on Hulu after missing it on Netflix way back and I binged the whole thing recently. Still love it.

Solar_Crimson posted...

I thought they no longer had the license to use Tony Hawk's name and image.

It's the other way around. *Tony* doesn't have the rights to his own name and image. Activision does. Tony would kill for some new THPS.

T2 came out in 1991.