The Harbinger of Ferocity

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

I suppose we have, the alias of Torag seems to have worked out as it were. For the most part, barring all the madness and psychic tampering, dragons, and evil cults.

Dungeons and Derps - The D&D Experience

This would not be the first time I heard of such behavior from players, @Metadude. My old company did the exact same sort of things when I first joined and started playing with them. Why? Because the Dungeon Master always made the random event somehow magical or obscene powerful. For example, the fight would have been over petting the hamster at first, until something about it was hinted to be magical, then they would all kill one another, make new characters almost instantly, then go on their way. Fortunately you had a restart as you did!

There Are No Heroes

We are still accepting one additional player and will expedite assisting in character creation. The game will likely begin this week, likely Wednesday.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I mean if we are speaking out of pocket we should probably then all discuss the random equipment the Department of Defense forces military members to pay out of pocket on regular nonsense like pens, ink, paper, paper towels and the like because the budget vanishes and you are expected to still do your job. Nothing like fraud, waste, and abuse in every sector of the government, or even say hearing stories about contractors using parts of equipment they bought from the local hardware stores to get the mission done.

Sorry, but not sorry, I would much rather spend money on getting willing, vetted, reviewed, trained, concealed carry certified teachers, even a couple per school, than buying more ink or paper for anyone in the government hands down. Let alone funding more opportunities for campus police or giving the school screening tools if they want to buy into the "Gun-free Zone" nonsense, so long as parents or guardians sign a waiver acknowledging that help is only coming when someone calls the police.

Ask the Person Below You a Question

My first actual experience roleplaying or my first experience roleplaying? If it were my first actual experience it was, to say the least, a brutal one where I found myself greatly out of my league. At my best, mind you quite young at the time, I was at most a "high free", "low casual" sort of writer and roleplayer, and stumbled on to a group who were what one would call "advanced" or "high casual" here on the Roleplayer Guild. Needless to say, they thoroughly enjoyed utterly dismantling me and effectively humiliating me. Fortunately I was observant enough even in youth to avoid obvious cliches and pitfalls, but my weakness was that I was still very uninitiated to advanced writing and my concepts were not elaborate despite staying away from the overt failings. A few months, a year of that even, and they had more or less made me into an actual roleplayer well beyond my age at the time and finally accepted me rather than treat me as a child, often speaking down to me and critiquing all I did. I hated the experience as much as I desired to improve and once I at last met their usual standards they embraced me as their own company; I felt I had well earned it, quite a rewarding experience too.

As for my first experience roleplaying, between being hazy and disjointed memories, what few I do even have of that time, I have been doing so since at least my time in elementary school. I never quite stopped and my character, rather my persona, only ever evolved and into new mediums. Nothing was truly lost there, the archetype refined, but when I was young I recall the reactions of others to be... less than accepting. Pouncing the other youth and or getting into brawls, attempting to slink around in the shadows or around brush, trees, and grass never went well. The game of tag was more a game of "Hunt and Chase", as being "it" was just part of taking on the identity and having an excuse to act it out. All of it was roleplaying from the start.

As for the next question please leave out names and do attempt to be ambiguous about it if that person is here among us on the Roleplayer Guild, but what was the worst, most egregious character you have ever encountered in roleplaying? Please do elaborate, we all love the horror stories here I am sure.

D&D 5e -- The Lost Children

Assuredly not on my list of things to conjure or summon.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Not every teacher should be armed and any who are should be processed, vetted, trained, and kept on a living record. It should be a conceal carry option for those that qualify in it, with the addition that if a school does not wish firearms to be on the campus in the hands of teachers, either because they cannot afford a privately owned weapon or because ideologically they are against firearms, there should be a waiver written for it. This would place all liability on the school itself and it need to find alternative means that afford the same level of protection, be that a police officer, rather officers, by an agreement with local or state law enforcement, or by using other techniques such as metal detectors, interlocks, and screening areas to achieve roughly similar effect.

I certainly do not believe every teacher should be armed, but those who are should be held to the highest standards of reliability and follow processes the federal government already uses for the arming of its members and when they are not authorized to bear firearms. Example being that if said certified teacher is on medication that is mind or mood altering, they are not permitted to carry their weapon; same with those undergoing counselling or those with financial issues. In short, lift a process from one side that does work and has worked and shift it over to the other.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I know that we held this discussion the past day, @SleepingSilence, but it is clear beyond a doubt all of the numerous warning signs by many involved were ignored. There was and is no shortage of evidence that indicated Nikolas Cruz was a prime candidate for an active shooter. Why these were so looked over, underplayed, skipped outright, or put off is the largest issue I take. This was a case where the member was specifically barred from even going on the grounds, let alone having a backpack, and being the end of jokes by his peers that he was likely to be a school shooter.

I do not believe his obtaining a weapon was the issue here, rather the issue here was that anyone who knew anything about it in some cases did not report it or when they did reporting the reviewing officials failed spectacularly. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's failings here, public ones at that as we know of them and not even rumors from within, are clear signs they made a grave error and cost others their life by some form of bureaucracy or neglect on a potential tip. This is not to say Cruz did not do what he did, but it is to utterly note the shooter should have been handled first and foremost.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I guess it's the price these poor kids have to pay since guns are handed out like candy.

Where are they handing out firearms like candy? I certainly would like to know. I haven't witnessed it before, but I suppose there is a first time for everything. After all, if it were that easy, I would expect more of them and at significantly reduced cost. It is almost as though obtaining firearms isn't as easy as people make it out to be and that the bad people are going to manage to get them one way or another, laws be damned.

There Are No Heroes

There is still room for one more player and as a side note, "Session Zero" will be held on this upcoming Saturday the 17th to build characters, clarify matters, and answer questions.