The Harbinger of Ferocity

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

If by "hardcore" we are talking about them pandering to a minority of Americans, then yes, yes they are dedicate to those ends. Sixty-two percent, a majority by a large margin when the factor of error is three percent, believe the historical significance outweighs the "offensiveness" of the statues, according to the Democrat leaning Marist Polls. Granted it is not a significantly large poll and has a heavy bias toward political Left, it still displays that most do not agree about the events unfolding with them.

Destroying your own history in an attempt to make people feel better is not going to succeed at anything but destroying your own history, or at best, shoving it into a box somewhere that few people will ever notice or know. Historical statues and relics do not oppress anyone, ever, and any offense associated with them is artificial; they have been there for many, many years and just now are a problem? That is awfully convenient for a political and social movement. This is also ignoring the obvious Islamic State or Soviet Union parallels of destroying historically offensive monuments that go against the ideology, but those cases make themselves.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I would have to disagree with the "You have to put a certain amount of..." as I would much rather have fewer news agencies, reporters and journalists if it meant they were more accurate and actually cared about their work, rather than pushing trash, sensationalism, artificial narrative and yellow journalism. Then again, I trust nothing of the media as it is, so accomplishing such a thing, if it were even possible at this point, is unlikely to sway my personal opinion. It just always is a wonder to see things as the above or this or even this.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Yes, because this is the hard hitting news the public needs to know about. We were all so worried about the President of the United States retweeting memes and their scientific inaccuracies. Where would we have been as a society if we did not know Trump received two scoops of ice cream? I can only imagine the mental anguish we would suffer for this travesty if we thought him eclipsing President Obama was based on fact! Who would dare do such a thing, going on the internet and spreading lies?

D&D 5e - The Lost Lands

The Vale

The Town,
Currently

Between the combined might of sword and spell, the last guardian of the darkness fell and disappeared. It collapsed to the ground with a metallic chunk, its "flesh" having evaporated into smoke and its set of heavy chain, shield and blade soon followed, drifting away. All of it having become nothing once more, a flurry of sparkling magic raced around the aasimar and her greatsword, just past her while the gnome shouted something oddly magical. The projectiles smacked clean into the small fiend, bits of glittery silver dancing on the earth before their elven wizard set down upon it with an added strike to finish the foe...

Then all was quiet again in the town. Not a single unusual sound to be heard, just as there was an absence of sound to be expected. No mooing of cows, clucking of chickens, bleating of sheep - not even the cry or laughter of children. Just eerily empty, to which the gnome noticed as he lifted the brim of his hat, looking one way up the dirt path and the other way back to the gate. He sighed and shook his head before brushing the back of his palm against it; he then put away a ring upon his finger into his large robe's deep pockets.

"Not good... we need to go to the Hall right away. The shadows are getting more restless it seems! Every day more bold, so bold as to be out in dawn now!" Birbin's bright eyes shot up to the sun rising still upon the mountain.

The burning, warm orb appeared fixed, almost as though it were not to move over many, many hours to come. This the survivors of Turyn knew, how long their day had been before, but this? This did not bode well for their adventure through the town, to which their guide apparently announced there after.

"Trouble probably won't be far, so expect more of the bad guys!"

Effects

Thea and Wick defeat the remaining Shadow Soldier, allowing Birbin the opportunity to finish the last Shadow off with a casting of a magic barrage. The skirmish has ended and the heroes once again have succeeded. They receive 425 Experience Points.

All players must again roll initiative so that if combat does break out, it may begin immediately.

Score
To Battle

Map
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@Cu Chulainn, @Gordian Nought, @Hekazu, @JBRam2002, @Zverda

Tabletop RP Questions

Current Question:
How does tracking dice rolls work through an online medium, like in the tabletop section of this site? Does the DM make all rolls and tell players what they got? Or is there some kind of dice roll program that players use, so that everyone else can see what their roll was?

@Kuroneko

The Roleplayer Guild has links to all die rolls that players would need to post in order to validate their rolls in the Dice section called Campaigns; players then link their rolls. Other places use Discord chatbots who automatically post the result on the Discord. Some use third party programs like Roll 20 which automatically track it as well. Here on the Guild, the first is used almost exclusively and has great advantages of being a permanently linked url.

Bloody Roar [Fighting Game-Style RP - Always Accepting!]

I had understood it as a sort of fighting game, not a fighting game, so that was likely my disconnect, @Holy Soldier. I will probably go and lift a set of abilities from the game and match them at a one-to-one ratio to populate the rest of the entire move set for Theron. As for my character sheet, I had assumed you were not trying to be belligerent, controlling or the like. I figured it was par for course.

Tabletop RP Questions

Current Question:
Will A Houri Necromancer who becomes a Lich experience the decomposition disadvantage that Lich or other races experience?

@Kuroneko

In the way that abilities are traditionally applied in Dungeons and Dragons, they are determined by a loose hierarchy. For example, you start with ability scores, then add any racial adjustments and templates, then any class adjustments. Certain root changes, such as the creature's type going from "Humanoid (Houri)" into "Undead", are going to usually have assigned consequences mechanically. Lore wise this is not always reflected. Yes, a lich could be "pristine" rather than dry, skeletal and decomposing in appearance, but that is not so much how Dungeons and Dragons understands the lich or how the mechanical qualities apply.

My source comes from the 3.5e SRD, which is the "core" rules document that was put out a time ago by Wizards of the Coast. It has this to say about the lich template.

"A lich is a gaunt and skeletal humanoid with withered flesh stretched tight across horribly visible bones. Its eyes have long ago been lost to decay, but bright pinpoints of crimson light burn on in the empty sockets."

d20 SRD

No less, it has a source of Natural Armor and Damage Reduction (specifically magic and bludgeoning, adding to the magical skeletal concept), further suggesting the story component they attempted to reflect.

If you are trying to avoid the more overt touch of the grave, you are better off with the Necropolitan template or Tomb-Tainted Soul feat, as below.

"A necropolitan's skin is dry, withered, and powdery. Its eyes are as pale as driven snow, and as lifeless. It continues to dress in the fashion it preferred while living. Necropolitans are considered citizens of the little-known city of Nocturnus, but if their nature is revealed elsewhere, they are feared and hunted like common monsters."

Realmshelps

"Your soul is tainted by the foul touch of undeath."

D&D Tools

Bloody Roar [Fighting Game-Style RP - Always Accepting!]

@Holy Soldier, is it fair then to assume because that is the school of martial arts, to include its basic techniques and attributes, of Fu Jow Pai and Heihuquan that I then do not need to list its typical attributes under "Fighting Abilities and Techniques"? At this point that seems to be my understanding. It was there to describe an atypical and unusual fighting style that is certainly not common in the Western world, let alone outside China. Either way, I removed it all.

As for the phrase "to paint", it was an informal term I was familiar to with the tactic itself and I dropped the other referenced line because if that was how it was being read, then that certainly is counter to the intent.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I am not sure how that sounded like a reasonable or rational response to a non-existent issue. The man's name is Robert Lee, which is but only, and at the same time, entirely his name. There is no mistaking him for Robert E. Lee a Confederate general who died near one-hundred-fifty years ago. If someone takes offense at that coincidence, I would almost dare say they deserve to be offended. I had heard about the meaningless gesture to avoid "controversy", but I had hoped it wasn't true. Color me none surprised that it is reality at this point.

Bloody Roar [Fighting Game-Style RP - Always Accepting!]

@Holy Soldier, I have made those changes and attempted to simplify them more throughout. Some were renamed as I replaced them altogether to make them more conventional and less complex.