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#27 Feb 06 2020 at 8:15 AM Rating: Good
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I have. It does help, but not always enough and with some games it's not an option. It all started with Portal..

Anyone used or know anyone who has used xbox All Access? It sounded like the perfect option, but when I went to sign up, I had to do it through Amazon and I had to apply for a line of credit - a credit card essentially. They don't take any other payment and it's a two year contract. I backed out.
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#28 Feb 10 2020 at 4:29 PM Rating: Good
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After 13 years I learn you are a web developer, Jophiel?

Boy, am I clueless.Smiley: glare

Imagine how I felt.


Architect. Web Designer. It's all the same, right? ;)

I enjoyed The Witcher as well. The jumps weren't that bad to me. I actually liked that the Witcher stories were basically one-shot episodes while a couple of story arcs following other characters occurred along the way, knowing they would eventually connect (which they did). I've never read any of the books, but my understanding is that they were originally just collections of single shot short stories, so this fits. There were a couple time issues though. Like with the Grandmother/Queen who didn't appear to age despite somewhere around 25-30 years passing from first encounter to last. The other one that was strange was the bard, who it was unclear how long he was traveling with the Witcher, but it at least appeared to be a significant amount of time, yet he never appeared to age either.

Oh. As to the DMing thing. It does get easier/faster as you gain more experience. The key is to break things up into logical chunks. I tend to write a broad storyarc for an adventure, listing chapters and an outline of what will happen in each to make the story complete. Then I write each of the chapters, again giving an arc for that part, and listing separate key encounters, travel, interactions, etc that will occur (again with an eye towards moving the story along). The beauty of this method is that you don't have to sit down and write a huge adventure up front. As long as you have the outline for the whole thing, and an outline for the chapter you're in, you can just fill in each section as you go. I'm usually not more than 2-3 sessions ahead of what my players are currently doing at any given time, but the end result is a consistent story and plot, that makes sense to the players, and hopefully is fun along the way.

Just don't forget treasure. Players want rewards for their time.

Edited, Feb 10th 2020 2:30pm by gbaji
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#29 Feb 10 2020 at 7:44 PM Rating: Excellent
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Their reward is not dying (but it's been close lately!).
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#30 Feb 10 2020 at 11:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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Just don't forget treasure. Players want rewards for their time.


More m.onk items!




That filter is stoopid.Smiley: mad
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#31 Feb 14 2020 at 12:08 PM Rating: Good
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I got an xbox one x. Smiley: smile It came with a free second controller a month of game pass and gold pass (I'm not really sure what else that gives me, but I'm awash in games I want to try)

I think the Witcher 3 game is the biggest time sink ever! (but I'm enjoying it). Last night hubby and I tried out motorcycle racing - that was pretty fun. Was disappointed to learn that I'd have to rebuy Diablo III to play it on my sexy new console.
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#32 Mar 09 2020 at 11:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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#33 Mar 14 2020 at 3:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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why must you turn my office into a den of lies!
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#34 Apr 07 2020 at 8:26 AM Rating: Good
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I picked up Bards Tale Trilogy Remastered... Oh sweet dungeon crawling childhood reliving torture... I'm determined to actually beat them before I play Bard's Tale IV. Even after deciding to just use a walkthrough it's really a nice challenge..
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#35 May 08 2020 at 4:51 PM Rating: Good
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Again.

FFS sake, people, post something!!

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#36 May 09 2020 at 8:29 PM Rating: Good
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Stop telling me what to do, you're not even my real dad!
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#37 May 10 2020 at 9:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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I started No Man's Sky the other day (a million years old at this point but whatever) and it's not bad. I'm not hooked, but I'll go back to it and mess around a bit. It suffers from the same issue I had with Subnautica: Here's a big fascinating alien world to explore... and we're going to bug you every thirty seconds to replenish your food/water/oxygen/shields/whatever. In both cases, it's not even difficult to collect the resources and toss them in the tank but it does constantly remind you that you're playing a game and detracts from any sense of wonder. Anyway, I got off my initial shithole planet and flew to another shithole planet where I can locate weird alien things and zap them with lasers to steal their components.

My weekly D&D game has moved online via Fantasy Grounds. Except for the people who can't or won't run Fantasy Grounds who follow along via me streaming it through Discord and them just watching that narrating their moves to us. It works okay, better than no D&D, though the pace is definitely slower. Heaven only knows when we'll be back to meeting at the ole comic book store, though.
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#38 May 10 2020 at 10:04 AM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
My weekly D&D game has moved online via Fantasy Grounds. Except for the people who can't or won't run Fantasy Grounds who follow along via me streaming it through Discord and them just watching that narrating their moves to us. It works okay, better than no D&D, though the pace is definitely slower. Heaven only knows when we'll be back to meeting at the ole comic book store, though.

We've been getting along well enough using Roll20, but it's definitely slower than playing in person. That, and my group loves to debate rules interpretations (usually only when I tell them they can't do something), and it's somehow worse when we're not sitting around the same table. We had a discussion about whether our monk could use his Deflect Missiles feature to mitigate damage from a ranged spell attack because the spell name included the word "arrow" that lasted literally 10 minutes.

I'm looking forward to going back to IRL sessions, but I can't imagine it will happen until Fall at the earliest, and only with a COVID vaccine.
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#39 May 11 2020 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good
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I played subnautica a bit. It wasn't very pretty. I still go back to Don't Starve when I need a survival fix.

I've started Stardew Valley. It's kind of fun, but not enough killing stuff. I just downloaded Elder Scrolls Online onto my XBox, but haven't played it yet.

I occasionally think I'm going to make some progress on my journey through Middle Earth in LOTRO, but then I have to wait for an update and then the moment passes. I still want to toss that dam ring into Mt. Doom.



Edited, May 11th 2020 2:31pm by Elinda
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#40 May 11 2020 at 7:09 PM Rating: Good
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I occasionally think I'm going to make some progress on my journey through Middle Earth in LOTRO...
OMG! OMG! OMG! Which server?
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