@Devrex However folks want to handle it.

My focus there was affecting a non player controlled element of the setting, and I doubt players would want to have their PC swayed by +jobs. I could see them calling out some tasks as sort of requirements to meet, or advance socially or what have you, but since interaction with another live player is the best part of involving human players, I could easily see people skipping it.

@Hella I'm so glad you had fun!

Love that the physical book is cheaper than the epub.

This one is from TTRPG; now that I've read the whole acronym and caught up with the rest of the class, you know.

Content warning: Drug Use.

***The Story***

The GM had placed us in a situation where our almost-epic D&D characters ended up Somewhere Else, where we all thought we were just college students. So suddenly, my fighter is just a kid on a sports scholarship. But there were a few secrets and things to find on campus that could give you special abilities.

Someone is summoning some Lovecraftian horror on campus. We find the summoning. This giant tentacle thing is now rising up in the woods behind campus. We have like. 5 hit points.

Enter the Druggie. She had found one of those secrets. It seemed super lame. She could jump. Really high.

And she'd been charged with finding a few "supplies" for the druggie party later.

So she turns to the GM and says, "Welp. I have ecstasy and Everclear here in my inventory."

GM blinks slowly. "Uh, yes, you do."

"Great. So I mix the ecstasy in the Everclear, shake up the bottle, jump up, and throw the resulting mess into the creature's mouth."

The look on the GM's face was priceless.

Once he'd recovered, the thing loses its mind, wrecks its own summoning circle in its drug-fueled haze, and returns to whatever reality it was trying to emerge from.

@ZombieGenesis Same. There's something very relaxing about the game while also having good puzzles and exploration. In the last few years I've really taken a shine to "lower stress" games like the Lego games or games with a "story" difficulty. I probably needed more relaxing games after being the "Soulsborne" gamer that I am.

Importing your WizardingWorld stuff was neat. Turns out I'm a Gryffindor. Huzzah

@Misadventure

It was all text from what I saw. But I did hear about another server (I didn't join that one at all, too busy at the time) that was run like a tabletop game, mostly over voice chat.

@insomniac7809 said in Thirtsy Sword Lesbians wins some ENies:

I mean, the title says it all, doesn't it?

I read it as 'thirty sword lesbians' and I didn't know if it was referring to the number of blades or ladies involved.

@Ghost I played that a few years ago. It was pretty good.

The hidden playing of cards is a way to emulate predicting or reacting to your opponent's moves. It's referred to as yomi in some circles, so if anyone is looking for ways to get that feeling with something other than RAW Street Fighter, that term may help you find some inspiration.

You'll also find at least one martial arts fighting card game by the same name.

@lotherio

So the short of it is that with knowledge, you get better everything else. You get better traits, which makes vassals like you more and disencourages murder / rebellions. The more you're liked, the more troops you get. In addition, the quicker you can upgrade your military units and get more men at arms. It improves development quickly, and development is where your taxation is based, so you get more money. It makes the church like you, and makes converting counties to your religion / getting a claim much faster; this also helps getting money from the Pope if you're Catholic/Insular.

I guess the only thing it doesn't really improve is intrigue, but the truth of the matter is you don't need high intrigue to be successful.

It also makes your ruler live longer, which is /huge/, and you know 1 year before he dies. There's no surprises (because everyone loves you, you're not likely to get murdered -- and you have money to improve their opinion). Your ruler can live, in medieval terms, to 70-80 yrs old, whereas if you focused on anything else, he could drop dead at 40.

@jomomomo yes

@seraphim73

They’ve been dodging death for years.

@derp Hardcore goes in the Hog Pit

Is anyone playing Crusader Kings 3?

It's on sale on Steam for $38ish but the Royal Edition is up for double that.

Is the full pack worth it?

@wizz I don't play as much as I used to but it's a fantastic game.

@carma
It wouldn't help existing WoD games; they said on their Twitch where they talked about it that it's only for 5th edition products, as far as the digital tools, character stuff, etc. They said 'never say never' but adding anything else is not on their roadmap currently. Which isn't surprising, Paradox has onlly been pushing official support for X5 editions, since that's the current edition.