alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

how do i reveal to my players that the military riverboat they commandeered is in fact the supposed pirates that they had expressed interest in investigating before... the captain had a stereotypical pirate cap on board and the surviving crew burst into laughter when the PCs mentioned their plans to hunt the pirates. idk what to do unless i just actually tell them straight up

it's like just an infinite supply of single-day accesses that still have to go thru the usual like post-subscription flow

library access to the NYT is still rather inconvenient

@pan there's a game called rolemaster that's big on a different kind of very extreme table rolling

like, for every attack, you roll a d100* plus modifiers and you look up the result on the attack table for your weapon, looking in the column corresponding to the armor type you're attacking. and then it tells you how much damage you do and whether you get a critical hit and if so which critical table to roll on and what modifier to apply. (then the critical tables are simpler tables but with lots of very specific (sometimes gory) entries)

it's a lot but kinna neat imo. some related games made it so that there are fewer armor types and not as many attack tables to simplify it a bit.

• there are some extra details where you have a 5% chance of having to roll again and add it and similarly for subtracting so that notionally you can roll any positive or negative number but probably won't go suuuuuper far

@pan nodnod

i'm always pretty like minimal with my prep (the obsessive phase tends to mostly go to reading setting stuff, writing rules summaries, and things like that) usually but often when that phase passes i'm like, similarly bewitched by something else and end up having a hard time fitting in even the little bit of prep i think i need to do (in practice it is fine except that sometimes i get sufficiently anxious about it to cancel a session to delay to prep more hehe)

@pan nice. i often have the problem that i have like a phase of being super obsessive about a campaign and spend lotttts of time thinking about it, but that phase ends before the campaign actually gets going hehe. glad yr not having that problem ^{^}

@aescling @wallhackio there is a ZWSP on the end after the eye. maybe that's breaking the check?

upside of trying out soulbeast in gw2: a furry
downside: i don't throw shiny pink floating swords at people with my mind anymore

also in a practical sense i do more damage more easily

@Lady i have been playing guild wars 2 a lot and doing not a lot else due to being rather ill

@pan there's another mythological creature often called catoblepas that was also (at least in like, renaissance-era European writing about it) called gorgons. and that "gorgon" was described as a bull-like thing