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Currently playing and greatly enjoying Game of Thrones 2.0. My local group has picked it up as our L5R replacement until the LCG launches.

On that note, we were playing Doomtown pretty frequently, but due to how AEG handled the sale of L5R, we don't know if we want to continue.

>tfw want to be part of Netrunner
>tfw have starter sets plus a few packs
>tfw no one to play with
>tfw its kind of too late now as the community seems competitive and there's 9 million cards now

>>43718402
Shit man, I'm right there with you

You explain the simple ideas of the weights and punching bags around the area to Pandora, showing her how it's done using somewhat embarrassingly light dumbbells. You hear light chuckles from some of the security team around you, but you brush it off. Pandora mimics your attempts, lifting some of the lighter weights slowly. She's not terribly good at it, with a maximum lift-strength of around 40 pounds at best, but she feels accomplished seeing what she can do.

You have her try hitting a bag next, only for her to not really know what to do. She seems to worry about being violent toward the bags after your long chat about hurting others. You assure her it's alright and that the purpose of these is to be punched to test yourself. You give it a few practice blows to show her to another murmur of laughs and whispers from security. Pandora timidly tries herself, but you can tell her heart's not really in it. Seems violence just isn't in her heart, or the equivalent, anyway. Still, you're proud of her for trying.

What should you try next?
>Try running
>Try tennis
>Ask someone for advice
>Other (write in)

>>43715435
>Try running

>>43715435
I say try running, she might like the extra room to use. plus i feel her speed might be a little bit more of a better variable to test since physically lifting and hitting things have hard coded limits as compared to running.

First post!

>>43719200
only in UK and places like it.
in countries that don't have "ground floor" your post is second.

so, /whfb/ what are you working on?
tell us about your latest hobby projects!

relevant link
https://www.quora.com/How-biologically-plausible-are-giant-humans

>>43714816
I go for the lazy scaling. Past a certain height even changing the proportions doesn't make the giant any more biologically plausible, so I just assume that they have some exotic compounds in their tissues with strength to weight ratios sufficient for their size to work.

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>>43714816

Is that a legit scale chart? Cause it's really unnerving.

>This is not okay
Tumblr pls go

>>43714543
It's a thing because people have shitty taste.

This isn't wow. Weapons and equipment doesn't stick to you on your own

>>43714227
>eat the things that fall from the sky
>eat
Only if it is quite cold, most of the time you have to drink them.

>>43714227
Well, you technically can eat the things that fall from the sky, but they're not very tasty. The really good stuff is the stuff that come out of the ground. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. The natives showed me this thing called "potatoe" and it was to die for.

>>43714252
ARE YOU FROM EARTH?

>>43714331
I already know what flavor potato is.

>>43714195

Listen, OP, you sound like an OK guy, so I'm-a do you a solid here.

Thing is, I can either give you the answer straight, or I can shove you in the right direction and let you find out on your own. In one case, you get a fish. In the other, you learn how to fish.

And this question you're presenting to us sounds like it'd benefit by being thought of as, 'what is the best armor system in a game and why are you using it?' -- to which I'll say that most d20-based games are about quickly-resolving narrativist/gamist fun and not realism.

See, it looks like you want lots of modifiers and stuff for increasing and decreasing armor values. THat being the case, I can recommend a change of pace from the d20 to the d6 (as Shadowrun does it) or the 3d6 (as GURPS does it) or the d10 (as World of Darkness does it).

The exception I keep coming back to is Numenera -- viz d20-based games being gamist, that is.

God speed!

>>43714195
alright, i'll look into those. Thanks friend

What's the rest of the system? A static DR instead of AC will quickly become useless as characters start having 60+ HP and enemies are expected to throw out 2d12+14 damage per attack. DR either requires similar values of HP/Damage across the board or have it scale to HP.

Maybe ignore damage less than 1/X your character's max HP? Just an idea off the top of my head but that might be an easy-to-scale approach. 1/10 for light, 1/5 for medium, 1/3 for heavy? Or maybe X=(AC+3), so AC+7 (the worst, if I'm reading your post correctly) only stops attacks weaker than HP/10 while the AC+0 (the best) stops attacks weaker than HP/3. It's a bit mathier but you shouldn't need to crunch numbers in-game (you would only have to actually do the numbers when switching armor, and that isn't something that happens mid-combat).

>>43713731
very, very lawful evil
least chaotic of the party

>>43713918
Yeah, but his behavior, like when he throws a bunch of puppies in a river and starts shooting them, or when he rapes and murders that little kid, seems pretty chaotic evil, bordering on stupid evil, actually.

>>43713967
He has a very clear worldview and adheres to it closely. It's all in his sketchbook and notes.

Considering the traditional example of Hitler, the core of the Lawful Evil character isn't respect for laws and customs but self-consistency.

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Did someone say heresy?

>>43713119

Does my girlfriend getting her period pleases Khorne or Nurgle? Or Slaanesh? Or, given that it aways comes during an exact time of the month (and that sometimes it's late), does it actually pleases Tzeentch?

Think about it?

>>43713214
Khorne. And if you fuck her on it, you please Slaanesh.

>>43713114
Now now, don't go getting upset with the Circle. They're just worried about the tidal shifts that the loss of the moon would cause.
As to the "moon rocks" query, there are about four or five spells that I can think of, off the top of my head, that could get one or two of your more trustworthy apprentices up there and back, alive. Send some skeletons and you drop it down to one: Cave's Dichromatic Portal.
Or just have your Eldritch specialist contact one of the Outer Gods, s/he won't miss the sanity they'll lose from it.

Moon rocks? Why study those, study the sun.

>>43713114
Perhaps we could simply transform something else into moon rocks, then study them? Like the forest the Circle of Druids meets in?

>>43712968
No.
Next!

>>43713028
/thread

What do you think? Do you think blocking almost all of the momentum of the bow so that the arrow only accelerates for about an inch is practical? Do you think that hitting your own neck with a bowstring that is provably capable of stripping flesh is practical?

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but cute chicks remain cute even with mods...

When they meet vampires they assume vampires are just guys who modiefied their teeth and are too pussy to do any serious mod on themeslve.

>>43712764
>chicks
Anon...

Wouldn't that be unbalanced?

>>43712380
Is that shit even legal? That either seems like it would be loaded or useless.

That looks like it would bounce like crazy. What are your gripes with it?

>>43712290
>[ ] You had no time to help.

>>43712290
>[ ] You had no time to help.

>>43712290
>[ ] Introduce yourself. Help her out.

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With a high-friction table, in which the dice can't slide across very easily, the dice tend to bounce around more times, tumbling and twirling, and making the results harder to predict. With a smooth, low-friction, or soft table, the dice tend to bounce fewer times.

Even bouncing doesn't always mix things up. The high-speed video showed that dice frequently did not change their face even after a bounce.

Could gamblers use the knowledge from this paper to their advantage, by placing the desired value of their roll as the highest-lying face of their die?

"I don't know how to use it practically in casino," Kapitaniak wrote. Players would have to know everything so precisely--most importantly, the exact position of the die--to be able to predict the results with certainty.

On the other hand, casino operators won't ever be able to achieve 100% random rolls with dice. They often drill the pips--the little dots in dice--and fill it with uniformly weighted material in efforts to make all sides of the dice equally probable to come up in a roll.

"Drilling the pips...gives the symmetry in the die but symmetry is not enough" to make it random, he said. "[The] top face will always be more probable."

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If not random, is the die roll chaotic--the popular concept that originated in the second half of the 20th century, in which small differences in starting conditions can lead to large differences in end results? The most common example is the hypothetical picture of a butterfly flapping its wings in South America changing air circulation patterns to influence the weather halfway around the globe. The end result is knowable only if you have precise knowledge of the starting conditions of the world's weather.

A die roll is chaotic only if it bounces on the table an infinite number of times, according to Kapitaniak. But this is far from attainable, due to the fact that the die loses energy with each bounce due to friction.

With the high-speed camera images and the new theoretical treatment, this paper provides a new contribution to the question of the true randomness of dice throws and coin tosses. It contributes to an increasingly sophisticated understanding of what can be considered fully random in everyday life.

And in a more practical vein, if you're playing Dungeons and Dragons tonight, it probably wouldn't hurt to start your roll with the coveted 20 on top--it may occasionally give you the desired results, while Dungeon Masters could insist on playing on the roughest, highest-friction table they can find.

in a yahtzee cup, we have schrodinger's die

it is simultaneously 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6-up at the same time before it is thrown.