Shorticus

Who's ready for Game of Thrones?

But D&D 5e is better than 3.5 and 4e and -

Oh, you mean a different D&D. Carry on.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Something that actually bothers me tho and people keep doing is using the "nation" tag when their RP isn't a Nation RP or anything to do with actually running a nation or something. I mean jesus fuck people, its pretty goddamn self explanatory. Y'all had one job and yet you still manage to fuck it up >.>

@ClocktowerEchos

There are definitely some gray areas, note. I made a roleplay which is based around everyone running a clan... but everyone is part of the same clan, and does a clan count as a nation, and does it matter if it has the same elements of intrigue and politics and diplomacy and war, and does it matter if it also is about adventure and mythology and honoring your ancestors and etc.?

I was very unsure whether or not I should pick "Nation" as a theme even though I felt it definitely belonged in the Nation section.

Unleash the Dogs of War! (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay)[Mature]

Ideally every mission would be a contest between who tries to kill me more, the enemy or the PCs.

@Culluket

Oh, come now! We're all brothers in arms!

_{The greenskin's onto us. Stuff him into the cannon before he figures it all out!}

Who's ready for Game of Thrones?

A wonder what color the weddings will be this year.

@Vilageidiotx

Purple.

Because the Byzantines are coming back and for them everything is purple.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

@Mardox

No contentions there. But not everyone who jumps into the internet, especially those who are very young (12 and under) and don't have enough supervision, know the things we do. And people ARE leaping into the internet at what feels like younger and younger ages, and people ARE feeling that pull to get more connected every year because the world becomes more globalized and the information age establishes itself more firmly constantly.

You may be content with not having social media, but if you want to understand why it's so all-consuming, that's a good start.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@Shorticus

It's almost like you were there...

@Jewels

It's a constant across a ton of roleplaying mediums. My closest experience with it was in MMOs.

What is this movie about? (New thread game)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader plays like a Greek akin to the Iliad and is about the adventurers aboard the ship known as the Dawn Treader. Set in the fantasy world of Fandalusia (which sounds conspicuously like Andalusia yet does not resemble Spain at all), this fantasy B-Film feels like the best (and worst) of D&D and Greek Myth smashed into one story. The heroes' adventures bring them face-to-face with wyverns, harpies, cyclopses, manticores, and other such beasties as they sail ever more to the east, where the dawn rises, in hunt of their lost homeland.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Why can't people just be happy with chat rooms, email and Skype?

@Mardox

Firstly, you can reveal just as much information over chatrooms, email and Skype. It's just not at EVERYONE'S fingertips. It's still just as dangerous.

Secondly... Okay, I think it's fair to say that social media is very easy to use, and you get to project a bit of yourself out at the world. Think about our forums for a moment. We have our avatars, we have account biographies and info pages, we have a history of every thread we've been in, when we were last online, what we had for breakfast (not really) and what we did last summer (okay, also not really). The point being: we share all this info all the time. Does it bother us? Isn't it nice to be able to thrust things that we feel demonstrate who we are into the forum, or at least are examples of what we find fun / funny?

Social media kind of plays on that concept and adds on a bunch of things that people love. It also makes you want to invite more and more people to join in with you so you can all "stay connected," so that everyone's easily organized into friends / not friends, so that you can with a few clicks take a look at the things your brother-in-law said about the War in Iraq, what your aunt said about gay marriage, what your friend twice removed's burrito at Taco Bell tasted like, etc.

Point being? It's easy to jump into it, and it's easy to want others to get sucked in with you.

I've managed to avoid social media strictly by having a no tolerance policy for it. I said before I only started an account once for use once. That's it. But it's so damned convenient that I've seriously considered jumping in anyway, even though businesses use it to decide who is unfit to be a part of their company and even though it'd require me to watch what I say with serious caution if I ever wanted to get into certain careers (like politics). I mostly know what I know from observing my friends, from listening to my friends, from seeing websites laud how awesome the new information age is (or how dangerous it is), etc. I'll bet I don't have a full understanding of the sheer enormity of the impact of social media, but it's huge.

Yeah. It's huge. It's not easy to be happy with a sweet slice of pie when your friends are eating whopping wedding cakes.

Mercenaries of Mundus-Opinions Needed-Come take a look!

A couple more questions of relevance, this time concerning battles...

6. After at-start-of-battle effects go off (like the Ranger's First Shot ability), do the two forces immediately clash in melee or do ranged fighters attack in a round before the melee fighters clash?
7. How much range do Rangers and Sorcerers have? Two tiles? Three tiles? Ten?
8. Is there an order in which attacks are executed, or does everyone attack at once?