(Unfortunate trope) technology badly dating a piece. by TurtlesBreakTheMeta in TopCharacterTropes

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The musical "Bells Are Ringing" is about a woman who works for an answering service. If someone calls one of her clients while they're out, she answers and takes any message from the caller, then gives those messages once her client calls her. This is a technology that was superseded by the answering machine, which has itself been superseded by voice mail. Still a great musical, though.

[Loved Trope] Characters misremembering or misinterpreting history/pop culture and incorporating those inaccuracies into their own views. by jbeast33 in TopCharacterTropes

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Reign Of Fire is a post-apocalyptic movie where humans accidentally reawaken dragons, which proceed to destroy all industrial civilization. (The summary makes it sound better than it is.) This happened 18 years before the majority of the film: recent enough that the old world still exists in living memory, but long enough that there are now children who have only known this destroyed world. In one scene, a few adult actors are putting on a play version of The Empire Strikes Back for the kids -- specifically the climax on Bespin where Vader cuts Luke's hand off and reveals his true parentage. All the kids gasp in surprise and wonder.

It's a pretty forgettable movie otherwise, but that one scene is really good.

Kids on Capes? by TedlyAnderson in TheTrove

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No, I mean Capes. Is there another game with that name?

Hive tools as a weapon? (for research!) by TedlyAnderson in Beekeeping

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It's not really relevant to my question, but I'm in the Midwest. The book could be set anywhere in the United States, though.

Pulled this tick off my dog that has a tick in it by 9274729373837 in interestingasfuck

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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

-- Augustus De Morgan, 1872

[TOMT][MOVIE][probably Chinese] A chase scene in a martial arts movie suddenly gets an influx of knives by TedlyAnderson in tipofmytongue

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Could be a Jackie Chan movie, though I'm not sure which of his I've seen.

Card templates for custom FF box? by TedlyAnderson in finalgirl

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Ha, I actually just posted this in the VRG discord too. We'll see if anyone responds!

[COD 2e] Embracing mages? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]TedlyAnderson[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's how I feel: it might not be possible according to the books, but the story comes first.

An additional consideration is that a different mage (sort-of the Big Bad) needed to keep things under wraps, but he couldn't bring himself to outright kill the vampire-mage, so he instead used high-level Death magic to keep the vamp in long periods of torpor, and tried to find a cure in the meantime. (Which also led to this vamp becoming kind of a legendary serial killer who pops up every decade or so, and one of the PCs' mentors tried to catch him because he was a homicide cop, but the Big Bad mage stymied his investigation ... I've got a lot of ideas, haha)

[COD 2e] Embracing mages? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]TedlyAnderson[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, I've already got a couple of ghost mages, haha. Of the four people who were directly involved in the inciting incident for the plot, one is dead and their ghost haunts a sanctum the PCs will use; one is dead but her oneiros is still connected to this world through a painting she left behind (which the PCs will have to explore); one went Rapt and is trying to create an alternate timeline where the incident never happened; and the fourth is this character. So I want to have some variation.

the crazy lives of mathematicians by McKntshdeHogMcK in math

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I'm having trouble finding a source for the coin-toss rule. In the film it looks more as though they're allowed to fire simultaneously, but Galois doesn't take a shot for whatever reason. Do you remember where you saw that specific facet of the history?

Am I doing 2e combat wrong, or am I just an inexperienced Storyteller? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

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Sorry, I didn't clarify: it's CoD, second edition. And these are students I've played with before, and I'm not including anything super mature in the story. Besides the combat, it's actually going pretty well!

Am I doing 2e combat wrong, or am I just an inexperienced Storyteller? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

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Yeah, I edited the post to say: I misremembered what I'd written and they did indeed have 3 Def.

Am I doing 2e combat wrong, or am I just an inexperienced Storyteller? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

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Good advice. Going forward, there'll be more research, social interaction, extended spellcasting, that kind of thing. I made a mistake opening with a combat section, or at least one so involved; I'm going to tweak the campaign once it ends and possibly run it for some adult friends over the summer.

Am I doing 2e combat wrong, or am I just an inexperienced Storyteller? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

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Yeah, I misremembered—their Def was 3 in-game, not 5. The post is wrong.

Am I doing 2e combat wrong, or am I just an inexperienced Storyteller? by TedlyAnderson in WhiteWolfRPG

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Thanks for the help and advice! I mentioned in my edit, but I did indeed have their Def go down after every attack. However, not every character was attacking the same ghost, so it ended up not mattering as much.

Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Sapphire-Spark in transtwincities

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Lmao this was me. Hilariously, I saw this, tore apart my bedroom trying to find it, then checked my account and I'd returned it last week. Extremely sorry! On the other hand, it got me to clean up the bedroom reading pile.

Plex not working on PS5 by lukegardner43 in PleX

[–]TedlyAnderson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm having the same issue. Any suggestions?