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  1. Comment on Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go? in ~games.tabletop

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    I really like the idea of the party being chased by something they can't kill! That sounded like a blast, and I am rolling at the idea of the dragon getting double konged. Good call with the broad...

    I really like the idea of the party being chased by something they can't kill! That sounded like a blast, and I am rolling at the idea of the dragon getting double konged.

    Good call with the broad tilde. ~games.tabletop would work pretty well, especially while the site is small.

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  2. Comment on Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go? in ~games.tabletop

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    I mean, I can understand not wanting to bust out trigonometry whenever someone casts an AoE, even if the math isn't actually that hard. Your DM should have let you take that fireball back if he's...

    I mean, I can understand not wanting to bust out trigonometry whenever someone casts an AoE, even if the math isn't actually that hard. Your DM should have let you take that fireball back if he's going to rule like that though. You did the math, the DM changed the rules without letting you know, so you should be able to un-fireball your teammate. Simply saying "Surprise, you actually lit up your teammate" after you calculated that isn't cool at all.

  3. Comment on Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go? in ~games.tabletop

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    I feel the same. I've thought of putting a campaign together from scratch, and nothing I try to write seems good at all. We just started playing, so we've got a lot of the printed campaigns to get...

    I feel the same. I've thought of putting a campaign together from scratch, and nothing I try to write seems good at all. We just started playing, so we've got a lot of the printed campaigns to get through before we have to start worrying about who is gonna write an adventure. =D

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  4. Comment on Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go? in ~games.tabletop

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    Hahaha yes! I love it when players RP their bad rolls as often as they play out their good ones. The Wizard in our group rolls so consistently awful that he's becoming averse to casting spells...

    Hahaha yes! I love it when players RP their bad rolls as often as they play out their good ones. The Wizard in our group rolls so consistently awful that he's becoming averse to casting spells that require an attack roll. "I'M CASTING GODDAMN MAGIC MISSILE BECAUSE IT CAN'T MISS GODDAMN!" - Desmodeous the Wizard. He decided during one fight that he would fire his bow at the enemy, because why the hell not. After rolling a natural 1, he talked about having a flashback to his father trying to teach him how to shoot, and the disappointment his father had in him for his failure to learn. It was hilarious.

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  5. Comment on Does anyone else here play chess online? in ~games.tabletop

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    I play on lichess occasionally, but mostly I just attempt (and usually fail) at solving problems with their tactics trainer. It's a good way to kill 5-10 minutes when work is slow.

    I play on lichess occasionally, but mostly I just attempt (and usually fail) at solving problems with their tactics trainer. It's a good way to kill 5-10 minutes when work is slow.

  6. Comment on Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go? in ~games.tabletop

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    I bought the starter set not too long ago, and my friends and I are running through Lost Mines of Phandelver. We're having a blast and I'm loving the DM role, although scheduling has been...

    I bought the starter set not too long ago, and my friends and I are running through Lost Mines of Phandelver. We're having a blast and I'm loving the DM role, although scheduling has been difficult. We're a bit older, and half the table has kids, making it difficult to schedule a game during the summer. We finally had a session after about a month, although we did have to leave someone out. I hated doing it, too, because the person never has any scheduling issues, with the exception of last weekend.

    Minor LMOP spoilers ahead!!!

    My favorite part of the game so far has been when the party encountered the flameskull in Wave Echo Cave. They are the complete opposite of Murderhobos™, so they attempted to reason with it, which seemed to be going well, until they turned their backs to leave the room and were slapped with fireball.

    Quote of the evening: "Damn, who would of thought the flaming skull would be such an asshole?"

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  7. Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go?

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    (First post on Tildes, feel free to blast me if I screwed something up posting this.) So, as the title says, I'd love to hear about how your game is going. Also, if there's a lot of D&D...

    (First post on Tildes, feel free to blast me if I screwed something up posting this.)

    So, as the title says, I'd love to hear about how your game is going. Also, if there's a lot of D&D discussion, we might talk the admins into going ahead and making us a ~games.dnd (wink, wink).

    Disclaimer: If anything cool happened, I may or may not steal the idea. =]

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  8. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - topic tag standardization/guidelines in ~tildes.official

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    I agree, and I'd add that it still may be necessary for a human (or a really smart AI, I don't know much about AI/machine learning) to occasionally go through the list and merge tags. Autocomplete...

    I agree, and I'd add that it still may be necessary for a human (or a really smart AI, I don't know much about AI/machine learning) to occasionally go through the list and merge tags. Autocomplete will work great for Kanye/Kanye West, but it might not work for things like "Beatles" vs "The Beatles", or "Smash Brothers" vs "Super Smash Brothers".

    3 votes