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19:59:03
gingerale
Dang that's a lot of content I'll have to get through. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0VPeNMUUAAscud?format=jpg&name=large
19:59:36
gingerale
If I make a play-by-post service for running D&D games without set session times, would any of you be willing to give it a go?
20:00:54
shinmera
Sure that part I get. I don't get all the other crap around it with stats races dungeons and whatever the hell else that makes it require an entire book of rules.
20:01:47
gingerale
That's just for keeping things rolling. There are other systems that go around that. Some don't even have dice, others don't have a DM, and some neither.
20:03:39
gingerale
The biggest problem with D&D's dice rolling system is that you don't have a "slight failure" or "barely success" like some others. It's very you did it or you didn't.
20:04:41
gingerale
Yeah, I'll have to see if I manage to actually make it. I keep wanting to make it but I always feel like I'm the only one so I feel bad working on it.
20:05:29
gingerale
All your projects have been incredibly useful and well thought that lead to good things though.
20:27:55
minty
i know you can't be like "i have all the powers forever" n shit. it's boring n not fun
20:29:18
gingerale
Sure. Harpies exist in the world I use as part of civilised society. Looked down upon, as all monstrous races, but they have their place. And the game already has playable bird people so it's easy to just modify that.
20:30:26
minty
pffft, ppl just jealous that harpies can fly away from them instead of get mansplained to
20:32:19
gingerale
The very first adventure in the campaign for that setting I like actually has the players deal with a strike. Either by helping them or getting rid of them. I've never heard of anyone's players pick the latter choice, though.
20:34:19
gingerale
The quest is to go to the forges and get a specially made item for the client, but the workers are having a strike.
20:34:57
gingerale
This is due to them being warforged, a sentient race of automatons, who are not paid fully "because they don't need to eat or sleep."
20:36:53
gingerale
These handsome people. http://keith-baker.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/warforged-Tailor-2-724x1024.jpg
20:38:54
gingerale
It's a fun story. My players made the protest bigger by getting other people to join it, solved things for the protesters so that they'd have time to participate, and then, after the employer finally paid them properly, got a local gang enforcer to break his knees.
21:15:14
gingerale
Hmm.. I found a harpy race made by a person whose work I trust. Can charm people with a song.
21:19:18
gingerale
In the lore they also use the song for entertainment in the nation of monstrous people. It has a bit of a narcotic effect.
21:21:09
gingerale
Will take a while, but I'd probably run the play-by-post games in the frontier town. Its book isn't out yet, but it's basically a wild westy mining town right at the border between the monster people land and "civilised" human country.
21:23:56
gingerale
shinmera: You made it sound like your drawing was turning very bad but this is really cool and creepy. I like it.
5:48:32
gingerale
So, as continuation to last night. Should I wait for the second vaccination dose being available before I get the first one, or should I get the first one asap?
5:48:57
gingerale
The difference is that I can get the first in June if I don't wait, but the second one won't be available until much later in the autumn regardless.
5:50:35
gingerale
The difference is that I can get the first in June if I don't wait, but the second one won't be available until much later sometime in the autumn regardless.
5:55:57
gingerale
I'll probably just read a bit on what the healthcare service says about it once it's actually available.