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20 hours ago, Maxx said:

@DoubleX

Am I to take this as an invitation? >_>

Time zones being as they are, the times you've talked about are about 10am my time, but that means that the Monday and Tuesday your time doesn't work for me at all, as those are work days. Friday your time makes it Saturday morning mine, which is reasonable, but I often have things I need to get done on Saturdays so I wouldn't want to play in epic length sessions if I were to join in on something on Saturdays (also assuming Ruki is in on this too, since it sounds like he's DMing).

I'd be down if this isn't too much of an imposition, but if time zones and timing is an issue then I'm also fine stepping away and letting you guys do your thing, since it seems like the rest of you are at least closer in terms of time zones 😛

21 hours ago, Kazuma KiRuki said:

They went to hell to deal with the warlocks old patron/get her girlfriends soul back. Vecna had orchestrated off screen Arkhan the Cruel stealing said soul, and then sent the warlock off in that direction. The wiped the floor with him and his goons.

Warlocks totes wants to attune to the hand. The cleric is like "fuck that "

Oh, Arkhan's involved, that makes sense now. Does also stand to reason he'd be vulnerable to Vecna's manipulations being attuned to the hand, even though from memory he's meant to be Tiamat's champion.

What level is everyone if they flattened Arkhan? Or is he reduced in level in Descent to Avernus and such? I believe he was reasonably high level in his guest appearance at the end of Critical Role C1.

I feel like that deserves some elaboration.

Also, have you considered tempting them with the Head of Vecna?

Yeah there's a few. I haven't done it yet because actually intentionally finding them is apparently harder than just stumbling on them by mistake. I'll get around to it at some point though.

These ones?

Wordle 312 2/6

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Wasn't expecting to practically no-scope it, but here we are.

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Hell yeah.

Wordle 210 2/6

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Feeling proud about this one. Most of my results are at 5, with a few at 4 and 6, so getting a 2 was cool.

4 hours ago, Bad News Jericode said:

For some more backstory, it's the first session, he only picked cleric because we originally had two human fighters so he changed class, and the everyone bar him rolled shit.

Welp. Guess RNG decided that's how that particular combat was going to go then!

The point stands though that a cleric can absolutely be a tank (even in medium armour). All you need is (Shield of) Faith.

Clerics are amazingly versatile, and I think it's entirely reasonable for one to be be built to wade into the fray and start beating face either magically or physically (or both). Unless Niner's playing a Life Domain cleric and has designated himself the "healer" (which isn't really a thing in D&D, but eh), but even then, Life Domain clerics get heavy armour proficiency, so you could absolutely build a healer with an absurd AC as well.

I'll be shocked if a KOTOR3 happens. Not enough of the KOTOR series is Disney-canon enough for there to be a Disney-canon version, and in old-EU canon, everything important from KOTOR2 onwards has already been done between the Drew Karpyshyn novel Revan and in SWTOR. Honestly, if you want KOTOR3, the closest thing you're likely to get is the Jedi Knight story in SWTOR, and you can play the game a) completely F2P, and b) completely single player, ignoring all of the MMO trappings if you aren't interested in that.

I would love to see Force Unleashed 3 though. 2 was way too short, and finished with a blindingly obvious sequel hook that never materialised.

Critical Role is single-handedly the reason I started playing D&D, let alone also DMing a campaign. Such a good stream.

19 hours ago, Rukaru Shida said:

Well I am now!

You could do the same with things like Bless, and make it different brews.

Ooh, you could make his Spiritual Weapon, like, a big barrel or something!

On 08/07/2020 at 14:38, Rukaru Shida said:

One of my players is gonna run Tomb of Annihilation on Roll 20 and I am excited! I'mma play a dwarven life cleric who has taken up adventuring to bring glory back to his clan name... just so he can get back to cooking and brewing in a tavern. 

Please tell me you're going to flavour Cure Wounds as him feeding people his special ale he's brewed.

I mean, lava makes light. You could fill the place with rivers of lava.

I see it as flexing different muscles, and get different benefits from both. I run one campaign and play in another, and while I do definitely enjoy building the world and having it react to my players in the one where I'm the DM, I also enjoy not having to worry about preparing dozens of possible NPCs that may have to react to what's going on, and just focusing on how one character will respond.

On 14/11/2019 at 22:38, Mad Jack stans Wiccan said:

A lot of the criticisms just seem kinda dumb. No national dex? What, you mean they're only putting pokemon in that make sense for the setting? Oh dear how horrible, better jump on twitter to send death threats to game freak.

I think a good comparison to this, which makes the concern a bit clearer, is to when Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire came out. There wasn't a big sprawling post-game, the National Dex wasn't a thing yet, and moving from the Game Boy to the GBA meant that it was impossible to transfer Pokemon from the older games, so you had a fairly clear separation there, and it was essentially a clean slate. That said, the data for the old Pokemon was still in Ruby and Sapphire, so when Leaf Green and Fire Red came out, there wasn't any incompatibility for trades and such. From what I understand, Sword and Shield have no data for any of the Pokemon not in the games programmed in, which means that either they'll never have any non-native Pokemon after future releases (like if they remade Gen IV, which if they continue the past trend is about where they're up to), or they're going to have to build it and patch it in later (which I don't even know how hard or possible it'd be, given that I'm not a programmer).

Now, all of that said, death threats and a petition to the leader of a country are way over the top and melodramatic, and people really should get over themselves. If they don't like how the game's been made or presented, they should express it with their wallet and just not buy the games. I've personally held off on getting these at release, partially due to issues people have raised regarding difficulty, and to a minor extent the national dex issue, but the main reason I've held off is the loss of the GTS, which was a fantastic way to get things that you needed, like trade evolutions and such, and has been in the games since Diamond and Pearl. I'm going to see how much the complaints people have had hold water once the game's been out for a bit and has had time to settle in, before deciding if I'm going to get one of these, but we'll see.

I may cave in a month's time and get one anyway, who knows >_>

I still log on occasionally. I actually created a new character on Star Forge to join in with my brother's guild at some point, so if you need a fourth to make a guild I could probably help out. Don't know how often I'll be on at the same time to do any group content though >_>

2 hours ago, Lint said:

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On 30/01/2019 at 03:46, stokerino said:

I think it's 5e? I say this from a place of knowing nothing about anything. Well, whatever.

First session was just making sure everyone was setup right and that roll20/discord/etc. was working the way they should. Next week we're sharing our characters with each other. The session after that will probably be the actual start, I think.

Though I haven't had the chance to play a Fighter yet, they look fun, and they have one of the best abilities in 5e in Action Surge, so there's that. Also all of the archetypes look good, particularly some of the shenanigans Battlemasters can get up to with their maneuvers.

On 20/05/2018 at 14:27, Benjamin said:

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I was actually so confused by the whole conversation going on and I was wondering when they sent Fitz of the current timeline into space, not the one they came back to. Just really weird that she'd be okay with that Fitz, which feels more like a consolation prize than the person she actually loves. I mean, she made the promise to never leave each other's side with the dead Fitz, not the one floating in space. They went through other growths together, found out about Deke together, so this is just weird. I guess when they wake that Fitz up he'll know that he fixed the timeline by doing the whole body freezing thing. Just weird, IMO.

Also, he wasn't shot into space, right? Didn't the bald alien guy who I can't remember his name of just freeze him, then just keep him in the lighthouse with him? They had a spaceship?

 

 

So, uh...I got myself a Japanese Carracosta through the GTS and thought I'd try that shiny breeding trick by breeding it with my female Dragonite by getting six eggs as a test. On the one hand, no shinies, but on the other, all six of them are female.

Does anyone want a female Dratini? If not I'm probably just gonna Wonder Trade them, maybe someone's just starting their game and will get lucky with a level 1 Dratini they can use in their team >_>

Just now, Josh McClane said:

I’d counter that watching it won’t really help you understand it any better.

Fair point. I suppose you could probably just watch the first TDW stinger on Youtube to see Sif and Volstagg giving the Collector the Aether, and Volstagg's line about keeping two Infinity Stones so close together (which is the first time they're called as such in the MCU), and be done with it.

11 minutes ago, Jericode said:

I'd say watch everyone's first film bar The Hulk to get their intro, the Avengers films, obviously, but the only sequels you really need are the Cap Trilogy, Guardians 2 and Ragnarok.

There are small problems cutting films out though, missing Ironman 2 cuts Black Widow's introduction and leaving out Dark World skips over Loki's 'death', which is what makes the reveal in Ragnarok more interesting. But yeah those are both missable in the grand scheme. 

Skipping Thor: The Dark World also skips the introduction to the Reality Stone. If you miss that one, anything involving The Collector or the Aether in Infinity War or Avengers 4 is going to be confusing. Plus TDW was where the first exposition regarding the Infinity Stones was laid out, so there's that too.