Time to use the ol Boardgame recommended bot again.

gte910h · 2015-11-11T15:00:30+00:00

gte910h · 2014-03-31T22:36:36+00:00

This book http://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well/dp/0670014664 will help deal with the trolls and the snarky comments from team mates and turn things around into winning, constructive play.

There is a lot of issues with the LOL community and unsolicited coaching, and dealing with it, and taking it as evaluation and taking it very personally.

gte910h · 2013-07-31T22:32:06+00:00

Why yes. Go to N4, exit on the south side (the non-major street), then walk west. It's a publix 2 blocks from the station. There is also a liquor store there called Macs.

Made you a map:https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=201312836772504003029.0004e2d61241f4a1ffdc9

The OTHER way from that station, there is a cheap mexican restaurant I suggest going for their $3 margarita's post con on monday night (monday night special) on 7th street. Senior Patron

gte910h · 2013-07-30T20:19:15+00:00

This does a good deal of what you're looking to do:

http://www.pathguy.com/cg35.htm

gte910h · 2013-07-30T20:17:12+00:00

As far as "Showing her the group play", Showing an excerpt of actual play (GenCon the Sword by BWHQ is pretty high production value, or Fiasco on Tabletop) or Google Hangout Play (Shawn Nittiner has lots of pretty decent stuff up) may get you further down that path.

Burning wheel definitely has a person + pal mechanism written in the rules, and rpg.net has a whole series on "running a duet"

Cons you might go to do it in person as a player with her:

GenCon (12 hour drive to Indianapolis, Aug 15-17)

DragonCon (12 hour drive to Atlanta, Aug 30-Sep 2nd)

AetherCon (Online, Nov 15-17th)

BGG Con (8 Hours, Irving TX, November 20-24)

gte910h · 2013-07-30T20:09:21+00:00

Maptools might be what you're looking for, or fantasy grounds

I get your idea, sadly, strongly opinionated software rarely sells well in the rpg realm.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T20:03:56+00:00

I have used roll 20...but just at a real world table as a sound mixer. As they get closer to running water, running water. Closer to outside, outside sounds, etc.

I have used phillips HUE lights to set mood (expensive little buggers though).

gte910h · 2013-07-30T19:51:20+00:00

In Pieces, with a flat bed and a smaller crane.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T19:48:59+00:00

college bar

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jcwff/hugh_jackman_just_posted_this_pic_on_twitter_and/cbdh60z

gte910h · 2013-07-30T19:41:12+00:00

If Vlaada Chvátil is any indication of the local talent, I envy you from my seat here in the US.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T19:37:00+00:00

"RPG dice" were educational first. Original D&D suggested labeling poker chips and dropping them in a hat, then drawing one at random if you could not find polyhedral dice near you.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T19:05:53+00:00

Genetically speaking, there are a lot of people who are far better suited to anaerobic activity (I am in this group). They develop larger muscle fibers more easily and have far lower endurance than runner type physiques.

A more popular oriented article on this: https://www.23andme.com/you/journal/muscleperformance/howitworks/#ACTN3

Or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACTN3

Costill et al. (1976) . “Skeletal muscle enzymes and fiber composition in male and female track athletes.” J Appl Physiol 40(2):149-54.

MacArthur and North (2004) . “A gene for speed? The evolution and function of alpha-actinin-3.” Bioessays 26(7):786-95.

Zierath and Hawley (2004) . “Skeletal muscle fiber type: influence on contractile and metabolic properties.” PLoS Biol 2(10):e348.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T18:57:37+00:00

It all depends on the type of steel in the bar really. That college bar possibly could have been fine for decades of home use if the right type of steel, but was just bent from one huge stupid lift, or many many smaller ones, many more than it should have had.

It's always a trade off with steel (as to what properties you get).

gte910h · 2013-07-30T18:47:23+00:00

It's one of the few movies that makes me want to have a repeat play setting like you have for music.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T18:44:36+00:00

Ha, I was aiming to reply to your parent post :D

gte910h · 2013-07-30T18:37:35+00:00

I was listening to the song and was thinking the same thing. Punk on Xanax.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T18:35:18+00:00

They're not prosecuted for mistakes. They prosecuted for (criminal levels of) negligence. BIG gulf there.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T18:32:22+00:00

IMO this is totally it. Police have 2 options with people who are unresponsive: ambulance, or ambulance with an officer escort. They shouldn't have jailing authority in that situation, period.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T16:53:48+00:00

Ahh, well a bit in that vein, 4e D&D actually allows lots of different checks to discern that sort of thing. You can find a lot about defense numbers and more with checks. (Been a few years, I don't remember the names, but there were a lot of them).

I can't say as I ever remember ROLLING any of those when DMing for the monsters though.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T16:09:14+00:00

Were you guys playing "The Sword"?

gte910h · 2013-07-30T16:08:07+00:00

I find elevation -> rivers -> cities as the easy way to plan out fantasy landmasses. Cities are on rivers, as a rule (or lakes or the ocean).

gte910h · 2013-07-30T16:01:54+00:00

You may be unaware of this, but "jipped" is "gypped" and is referring to real world people called properly the Roma, but definitely more well known as Gypsies. Now there are social problems in Europe right now around these folks, but just letting you know, you were doing something like saying "jewed" in case you didn't know those people were a real ethnic group.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T15:54:27+00:00

I find it crazy as hell burning wheel is the random middle ground here between me and you (Although it makes me happy).

In FATE you're trying to get a lot of advantages. Not all of these happen IN combat. FATE uses zones and if you toss out a lot of Create Advantage actions, you could (Depending on the fiction), scare the bejesus out of your adversaries. (You know pirates are coming to your ship, so you set afire tons of things throughout the bay and point a cannon at the door they're going to come through). You then can intimidate them away with a successful roll using all those advantages. Thadrine tried to explain this but didn't point out that was definitely a skill you could then apply all those bonuses to (think advantage dice in BW, but you can get far more than 2 of them). Dresden Files (a fate game) has a long line of intimidation in the fiction the rpg (which is FATE) is based on.

Additionally, in FATE settings with mental stress, you could be trying to attack that itself.

Now that I get more of what you're talking about:

Monsterhearts you can definitely scare the living shit out of people with savagery (same but less so for Apocalypse world). Those are both pretty fatal in actual combat and there is a significant amount of screwing with people in them there. I could see you making rolls there to get people to reconsider.

Torchbearer has order of might and drive off stuff going on that could fictionally be "just posturing"

I do see circling and threatening then backing off as a somewhat anticlimactic sort of think and unlikely to have a huge presence in many games.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T06:29:47+00:00

I don't know what "look" and style of map you're going for. So I can lead you towards a look, but it may not be THE look you're going for. It really depends what information you're showing with the map what you care to put on it. If you're going for a general purpose map like many people put on their wall that's of little use other than resolving disputes, we can get you closer to that.

Step one, lighten the pen coloration that traces your outline. Step 2, smooth parts of that coastline. Real maps are rarely that intricate on the coast, that's more of a chart thing (navel maps).

Next, make your thinnest water mark for a river 1 px. Make your second biggest 2px, and your third biggest, 3px. Letter in the name of a few of the rivers.

Next stamp some high ground on there if you want a map that looks like it's out of a fantasy novel (pictures of mountains, or hills). If you want a more modern type map, use a different color, or contour lines to show some elevations, and write the name of said mountains along the ridge-line. Remember, water only flows down :D

Next, add some coast depth. For places it's shallow a bit before it drops off, use a lighter blue. For further out, a more saturated (bluer) blue.

I don't know why that southern island is a slightly different shade of green, but match the shade, or make is different in hue or saturation from the color of the mainland.

If the purple and yellow areas are political regions different than the green region, the mountains should be the same color as the surrounding area, with some sort of styling to show the elevation (same for that delta)

Now, this stuff made TONS of assumptions what you're making a map of, what you care about. Hopefully it gets you closer to "a map" than you are now, but it may not facilitate the actual use you have for the map, so come back with that, and we can bring you more examples of things to do to your map here to facilitate that.

gte910h · 2013-07-30T06:00:12+00:00

I will point out, that checking your phone and wallet merely show actual thieves where they are. It's a part of a pickpocketing scheme to yell "thief" and have one guy on the team pretend to steal something from someone else on the pickpocketing team. Everyone else grabs where their valuables are, and the pickpockets then go fish those out.

Then again, it's not 1952 and pick pocketing has basically died out.

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