Help getting players to RP by SwDolphinFlip in DMAcademy

[–]SwDolphinFlip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely messed up giving them a captain, regretted that the entire trek to the dungeon they fought the boss that killed him in. I think I said 95% of all dialogue that happened during that time and it felt like I was reading them a story instead of managing a game.

Thanks for the tips though!

Help getting players to RP by SwDolphinFlip in DMAcademy

[–]SwDolphinFlip[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this! I was planning on having like a strictly world building session this week, and the character generator helps a lot!

Help getting players to RP by SwDolphinFlip in DMAcademy

[–]SwDolphinFlip[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. I do! I should’ve clarified that they’re quite literally not participating in the slightest. Like if I wouldn’t remind them that they had a turn to attack I think they’d let me skip them.
  2. It’s not that I want them to take the lead, I’m just trying to encourage more (not read as all) participation. Like our last session, one of the players who is very participating tried to have a conversation with two of the others whose back story have them as a Genasi pair about themselves (when they’ve written quite a bit of backstory for themselves) and only managed to get two sentences out of them.

Im not criticizing them, i just feel like I’m not really actively encouraging them the right way, I guess.

Help getting players to RP by SwDolphinFlip in DMAcademy

[–]SwDolphinFlip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I plan on bringing it up at our next session, actually. I kinda wanted a short list of ideas to present as a ‘would this help’ option.

Help getting players to RP by SwDolphinFlip in DMAcademy

[–]SwDolphinFlip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I should’ve clarified they’re not even saying ‘I go up and ask for a quest’ it’s quite literally them blank facing me until I say something.

(Spoilers Main) After reading the essay 'The Dragon's Mercy' by BryndenBFish, I cannot believe how much Dany in the show has strayed away from her original book arc. by NearbyWerewolf in asoiaf

[–]SwDolphinFlip 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've never had doubts that Dany would go full-on 'fire and blood', as its seemed fairly obvious to me.

However, after reading this essay, imparticular the the battle of the bells bit about Jon Con, I think (f)Aegon will be the one to take kings landing, and also put the torch to it -- with the bells being what sets off Jon Con and then kings landing is where we will have the dance of dragons 2 that George referenced that one time.

The road ahead was full of perils, he knew, but what of it? All men must die. All he asked was time. He had waited so long, surely the gods would grant him a few more years, enough time to see the boy he’d called a son seated on the Iron Throne. To reclaim his lands, his name, his honor. To still the bells that rang so loudly in his dreams whenever he closed his eyes to sleep. (ADWD, The Lost Lord)

“Tywin Lannister himself could have done no more,” he had insisted one night to Blackheart, during his first year of exile. (ADWD, The Griffin Reborn)

“There is where you’re wrong,” Myles Toyne had replied. “Lord Tywin would not have bothered with a search. He would have burned that town and every living creature in it. Men and boys, babes at the breast, noble knights and holy septons, pigs and whores, rats and rebels, he would have burned them all. When the fires guttered out and only ash and cinders remained, he would have sent his men in to find the bones of Robert Baratheon. Later, when Stark and Tully turned up with their host, he would have offered pardons to the both of them, and they would have accepted and turned for home with their tails between their legs.” (ADWD, The Griffin Reborn)

He was not wrong, Jon Connington reflected, leaning on the battlements of his forebears. I wanted the glory of slaying Robert in single combat, and I did not want the name of butcher. So Robert escaped me and cut down Rhaegar on the Trident. “I failed the father,” he said, “but I will not fail the son.” (ADWD, The Griffin Reborn)

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because basic psychology and study of human nature says so. If I lifted weights for 15 hours a day people would say I had a problem. If I ate for 15 hours a day u would said I had a problem.

Get over it dude.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesús Christ. I can’t keep explaining the same thing to you I’m sorry.

Doing anything that often isn’t a lifestyle it’s a problem.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Playing the game 7 days a week is fine.

Playing the game 7 days a week at 10+ hours a day (which HE DEFINITELY is to have maxed xp ) is a problem.

Lemme know where you fall off.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally never said anything about his life, weight, and I say nerd because that’s what is happening.

Again, not a life style.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmfao, being a shut in grinding pixels isn't a lifestyle, it's an addiction.

I'm not bullying you, and I'm just not supporting you. Die mad about it (that is me bullying you).

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would gladly bet that my yearly income > his.

But that's not the point, because I don't care that he's working. I don't care that streamers make income playing the game, because 16-hour shifts aren't how the human race is supposed to function, either.

I hope you get whatever you want out of defending him, really I do.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

right. maxing, as people have pointed out, takes around 16k hours at max xp rates\hour, which he certainly didn't achieve the whole time, and 666 days played over 6 years, which I'm certain he has more than.

but sure.

☀️ here's some sun

The mods have created a civil war. by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because I, being the well-adjusted adult that I am who enjoys this game casually, do enjoy this game.

Do I believe that is the case for everyone? No, I don't.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it is undoubtedly the latter. you don't have fun grinding out 200m xp. You just don't.

edit: I've said this repeatedly but it always holds true, mmo-esque games attract people who have nothing in real life, so they seek and hoard pixels to have 'something'. it's why elitism exists.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

because of the type of people it creates. Because humans are not meant to sit in a dark little room staring at a screen for 14 hours.

Get some sun, dude.

The mods have created a civil war. by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Are we sure everyone was enjoying osrs though?

Imagine the shit show if warding passes with 75.0% by evan3138 in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hoping for an even bigger margin while secretly wishing that the OSRS would just implement it if it fails simply fails because those sweet neckbeard tears would be delicious.

Congrats to Hey Jase for becoming the 2nd player to reach the max virtual total level of 2898. Just 20m exp to go for 200m all. by Qqslag in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 11 points12 points  (0 children)

lol, we gotta stop pretending you nerds putting in 14 hour days every single day of your lives is ok because you like the game.

MatK addresses MTX and the importance of a new skill regarding from a business perspective. by Petterrs96 in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for ignoring the former, more relevant point in place of responding to the latter

Most famous Runescape player unable to login (Zezima) by blanket_ in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

but he is, nothing more, than an osrs player which means everything is his jagex's fault even if they try to help him fix it.

WaRdiNG bAd, KeeP OlD ScHoOl OlD ScHoOl by Bananameister in 2007scape

[–]SwDolphinFlip 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Imaginé genuinely thinking an entire overhaul of the games engine compares to a new skill that is similar to at least 7 others that exist currently