Laga is me. Masses of kobolds are fun.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Connie Neil - Nov 02, 2016 7:32:38 am PDT #25300 of 26133
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Kalshane - Nov 02, 2016 9:17:20 am PDT #25301 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
We're playing a published adventure and I try not to change too much other than to patch over plot holes or possibly tweak things to work with character backstories. So no kobold hordes.
One of my friends says she might play if they're still lacking a meat shield after the character submission deadline, just so I don't end up killing them all horribly.
Laga - Nov 03, 2016 7:25:23 am PDT #25302 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Cool!
When I'm a player I try to wait until everyone else had decided what they're playing so that I can make a character who will fit in well with the rest. I play a lot of clerics.
Kalshane - Nov 03, 2016 7:30:59 am PDT #25303 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Sometimes I offer to round out the party, other times I have a character concept I really want to play. I generally end up gravitating to paladins and rogues, depending on what meshes better with the party.
Connie Neil - Nov 03, 2016 8:10:48 am PDT #25304 of 26133
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I like fighters and rogues. I could never get my head around magic well enough to be a cleric et al. I think that stems from a DM who objected to my creative use of the Lower Water spell (he liked assigning useless spells to L1 magic users). I still say that since the human body is mostly water, the Lower Water spell is a perfectly acceptable attack method. There wasn't anything in the wording to say I couldn't (though this was nearly 40 years ago, so I think they've rewritten it), and the DM tried for 15 minutes to find a supportable reason why I couldn't do it. I insisted that all the bad guys who witnessed the results of the spell roll a Distraction test.
Kalshane - Nov 03, 2016 12:08:40 pm PDT #25305 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
As much as I sometimes miss the feel of the old school (roll 3d6 in order, roll for 1st level hps and you get 2 randomly-determined spells in your spell book) game, I don't think I'd ever want to back to actually playing that way.
I do miss the unique characters that that method of character-gen created (point buy builds tend to look very cookie-cutter) but I certainly don't miss the wildly-varied power levels that could create within the same party.
I also like that the spell write-ups are a little more clear (though some do still leave room for creativity.)
Connie Neil - Nov 03, 2016 12:12:09 pm PDT #25306 of 26133
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What, you don't want to run the risk of dying of acne again?
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 03, 2016 9:07:15 pm PDT #25307 of 26133
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, playing the magic-user that had to fear the deadly swipe of a housecat's claws!
Kalshane - Nov 04, 2016 4:43:06 am PDT #25308 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Especially in the days before the "death's door" mechanic where 0hp = Dead.
SailAweigh - Nov 04, 2016 8:54:01 am PDT #25309 of 26133
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Does Civ VI require a Steam account to play? IIRC, Civ V did, and got rid of my copy it as soon as I saw that it required me to sign up.
Yup, still requires the Steam account. I'm willing to put up with an Evil Overlord to play the game; although, I do prefer Civ IV to any of the other iterations. I'm just not sure I can find a version that runs on Windows 10. I was too lazy to look for one and I wanted a version of Civ, NOW.