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[KaelGotDwarves]

Thank you internet for fulfilling my lifetime need to see nuns kicking ass and stabbing people with crosses.

EDIT: crotch shot at 1:15

[Vector]

^ That was wonderful.

I'm currently reading Rousseau's essay that establishes this problem.  Wow.  This is one of those days when it feels like studying rhetoric really is worth it.

[Heron TSG]

Arranging Baritone music adapted from some of my favorite vidja games. 'tis oodles of fun.

[Virex]

Apparently the translator I've got on my browser translates the French word putin (whore) with Putin (Russian dictator). For some reason I giggled for 10 minutes about that. The sentence I was translating was "Aretez-ca tu putin, il n'y a aucune language plus mauvais que l'Anglais", which turned into (paraphrasing because it also failed on arretez-ca because it was misspelled) "Quit that, you Putin, there's no worse language than English"...

[Vector]

That's probably because the French word is "putain," or "pute" =)  "Putin" alone doesn't mean anything.

[Virex]

Oh yeah, right. Still doesn't make the sentence any less funny...

[Bauglir]

That is the best knowledge.

Also, revisions complete, time to flesh out our Sanity system. What overly complicated game doesn't have one of those? Then, maybe social encounters. But first, I must nom on something for dinner, and then also take a shower.

[Heron TSG]

Remember to make sure that people don't go insane for silly things like looking at funny shapes.

[Lectorog]

I had a great time at the Anachronism Renaissance Festival. Now that I'm back, it just doesn't seem right to not be breathing in the smells of dirt, smoke, sweat, and ale. The jousting event was kind of... well, bad. I didn't find anything quite good enough to buy. Those are the only negative things to say about the day. Even seeing some projectile vomiting was fun.

And there was seriously a lot of dirt. All contents of my nose, snotty or otherwise, are currently black. My white shoes are very thoroughly brown.

Oh, and there was a guy there that looked exactly like Captain Jack Sparrow. Exactly. Even down to speaking and motions. It was pretty cool.

[Bauglir]

Bah. What if they're REALLY funny. Like a non-Euclidean clown?

Also, lol D&D. By their rules for calculating how difficult a monster is, a gigantic Water Elemental with an spoutload of Wizard levels is weaker than a human with the same number of Wizard levels. I sense some shenanigans available here.

Lectorog: That sounds like awesometimes.

[Akigagak]

Bah. What if they're REALLY funny. Like a non-Euclidean clown?

Also, lol D&D. By their rules for calculating how difficult a monster is, a gigantic Water Elemental with an spoutload of Wizard levels is weaker than a human with the same number of Wizard levels. I sense some shenanigans available here.

Er, really? Which edition, 3.5?

Because I think that's wrong in most of them, but the early ones are a hotbed of crazy bullshit meant only to kill players with nothing they can do about it.

[Greiger]

Also, lol D&D. By their rules for calculating how difficult a monster is, a gigantic Water Elemental with an spoutload of Wizard levels is weaker than a human with the same number of Wizard levels. I sense some shenanigans available here.

To be fair that kind of thing crops up quite a bit in RPGs.  In World of Warcraft there is a lv 60 ish fire elemental 5 man boss in a dungeon that was apperantly so strong it needed half a dozen mages constantly channeling just to keep it sealed.

In Uldum, a lv 84 overworld area(not even at the current level cap).  There are deer wandering around freely that have more hp, and hit harder than that does.


In Dragon quest 9 there is a later game overworld Green Dragon enemy.  In the final dungeon there is an adorable little hovering smiling puffball thing fluffing about that is significantly more dangerous than the dragon is.

[Bauglir]

3.5. It's kind of silly in a few minutiae.

Spoiler: Rules Talk (click to show/hide)

A Greater Water Elemental has 21 hit dice and is CR 9 with a high enough Intelligence score to take PC class levels. The rules for advancing monsters by class state that non-associated class levels (which Wizard almost certainly would be one of on a monster with no aptitude for spellcasting and a slight racial Intelligence penalty) only add 1 to the CR for ever 2 levels added, until you have more levels in the class than you have racial hit dice (at which point the levels stop being non-associated). Thus, you can add 20 levels of Wizard to the elemental for only +10 CR, resulting in a CR 19 20th level Wizard. The only downside is the -2 racial Intelligence penalty, which I think is more than made up for by, among other things, Epic Worldfucking Spellcasting.

This is because some of the authors apparently thought that hit dice were an effective measure of a creature's power, while the people who actually wrote the monsters' stat blocks decided otherwise. It'd easily be corrected by changing the advancement rules to start counting levels as associated once you have as many levels as the creature's CR.

EDIT: Heh, I love it when stuff like that happens, although the Dragon Quest one sounds like a deliberate joke rather than lack of designer foresight.

[Kadzar]

Thank you internet for fulfilling my lifetime need to see nuns kicking ass and stabbing people with crosses.

EDIT: crotch shot at 1:15

Even if it's not real, it's still was great to see a nun strangle someone with her rosary.

[Bauglir]

Truer words have never been spoken, except for these.