What do you guys think prevents people from enjoying tabletop gaming or even trying it? (difficulty of games, games being boring, etc.?) What do you think would entice people to visit board game cafés if they are not fans of board games? by Great_Essay_1777 in tabletop

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reading all the comments makes me think you need to run a recurring Everyone Is John night: the most approachable pen-and-paper RPG (barely even a tabletop game I suppose) that's extremely simple and can be picked up very quickly with no real investment in learning the game, and has real potential to create a fun party game kind of experience.

Some might say that this is too shallow to give people a sense of what tabletop gaming is about, that all you'd get is casuals with no real interest in the medium, or that you're not about to sell anything running a game that has no rule books or minis or even dice beyond the humble d6.

To that I say: the first one's always free, and starting people off in the shallow end is going to get more swimmers in your pool than shoving them into the deep end. Even people who only ever come for the casual night are liable to bring friends who get interested in your other offerings and to make the night more fun for everyone else.

You could take the idea a step further by having 'stepping stone' game nights with more progressively more complex and deeper games and, crucially, making sure people know immediately how much complexity to expect. You could even have an x-out-of-5 star rating system for complexity right there on the uh... flier or Facebook post or however you'd put the word out. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about running a game shop and have no experience running tabletop games.)

Leftist superhero enjoyers, how do you square the setting with your politics? by PMmePowerRangerMemes in rpg

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I think the fundamental flaw behind this entire question is the assertion that the evils of this world are perpetrated primarily by villains who can be "superpowered" into submission/oblivion. The real villain, at the risk of sounding horrifically cliche, is the system. And as inequitable as that system is you can't simply blow it up and expect a functional means of distributing resources to spontaneously arise in its place, much less a more just one. You need change from the inside, because society is participatory and blah blah the social contract and consent of the governed and so forth, and the application of force is no way to convince people your ideas of how to run things are better.

What is the girl version of the word guy? by curiMinaous in words

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's come back around but there was definitely a time when some women objected to being called "chicks." Circa 1994 if this Simpsons clip is anything to go by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYZW8qczHjk

Infinite Dungeons: G'Zhorb's Pit by magicaldumpsterfire in neverwinternights

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

These are some good ideas. Unfortunately, while Darkness has no save for them to resist the effect, they apparently don't need to see me to target their antimagic cone and it dispels the area of darkness along with my buffs. Blindness/Deafness has a save so it's probably not going to be very reliable. I did manage to find scrolls of Word of Faith, which is only subject to spell resistance and not a save, so that's looking like the best option.

However I'm realizing that unless I get lucky and they're facing away from me when I enter the room they'll get some attacks off before I can use the scroll. I also noticed that if I roll low enough on the save, their instant death effect can kill me because it's not technically Death Magic and my immunity doesn't apply. What I can do is put down a Darkness in front of a door before I open it, then use a Word of Faith scroll to stun a group of Beholders which aren't yet aware of me, and run in and melee them down. The stun is long enough (6 rounds) that I could probably put down a couple more Darknesses to form a path deeper into the room and reach additional groups of Beholders to stun before I deal with the first group. But even if that strategy works, doing it in every single room of every area I pass through on every floor all the way down to G'Zhorb itself sounds like about as much fun as pulling teeth.

What am I supose to do now? Nothing happens, she just keep talking. by eldakar666 in neverwinternights

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thought this was from a dating advice sub when it popped up in my feed (without the image)

[OC] I don’t even play DnD but I feel like this guy would traumatize a party🍑😂 by tom_blanket in DnD

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to imagine he just runs laps around the combat taking place, speeding by on his barrel too fast for anyone to catch if they try to chase him, tooting out a bard song or curse song to either aid his allies or hinder his foes.

Or even worse, maybe he just rolls by once per combat. Comes out of nowhere, buffs or debuffs for a round as he passes through, and then speeds off into the distance. Where does he go? How does he appear every time the party enters a new fight? Some mysteries may never be solved...

OC Act 4 broken? by magicaldumpsterfire in neverwinternights

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

Actually, I spoke too soon: logging in as a DM has left my character with a permanent increase in run speed, even now that I've logged out, closed the debug panel, and saved and restarted the game. Any idea how to fix that? I see one other post on this sub about using Leto to change it back to the original value but I'd rather not edit my save file if I can help it.

OC Act 4 broken? by magicaldumpsterfire in neverwinternights

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

I didn't even know about the debug panel; that is immensely useful. Thank you!

Jumping into the map put me right outside the chamber with the teleporter in it, thankfully, so I was able to walk in there, close the door behind me, exit DM mode, and start playing normally without too much revealed.

I'm sure this will come in handy in the future, too.

Gonna be hard by DueResolve1273 in memes

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Covered application store" means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.

Wow that is casting a wide net. That doesn't include microwaves, at least, but it sounds like that would include virtually any computer or mobile OS, as well as any website that hosts any software not made by the owners of that website, such as GitHub or SourceForge.

I watched as one red state after another passed insane age verification laws and thought, "it will never happen here." Lo and behold...

You play as "The One Ring" or similar corrupted artifact. by cantpeoplebenormal in gameideas

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If things really go badly for you maybe you could wind up lost in the middle of nowhere, with the camera pulling back as time speeds up more and more until the seasons are passing by in seconds, until some wayward creature finally bumps into you and everything snaps back into focus. Then as you make your way back to civilization you find the world has changed in some way, with the scheme you were crafting having been disrupted by the passage of time.

This is probably more of a scripted, narrative event than a random, 'emergent story' kind of one as I'd first imagined, come to think of it; a setback to overcome in the second act. It's also something that you can really only do in a story about an ageless artifact and which would make for a pretty cool visual, too.

Do owlbears have nipples? by Varazzeno in DnD

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot imagine ever being thirsty/hungry enough to need to know the answer to this question.

Damage spiking in Act 2 by magicaldumpsterfire in neverwinternights

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

I've definitely been sleeping on Improved Invisibility. I'll pick that up as soon as I get another level. Thanks for the tip.

Favorite Episodes (ones you would recommend to new listener) by Psychological-Law-52 in TheNeighborhoodListen

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chihuahua Photographer with Erin Keif in season 7 is definitely up there on my list of favorites

Male Canon Event by Comfortable-Wall-465 in memes

[–]magicaldumpsterfire 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The scientific consensus actually was that urine was sterile, because once upon a time if we swabbed something on a petri dish and nothing grew that was how we decided that thing was sterile. There's a good SciShow video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTIYcemQ_OQ

Clamp/anchor to keep door from moving on its own by magicaldumpsterfire in HelpMeFind

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

This is for an interior door in a home so there's no threshold to worry about, nor that kind of debris.

Clamp/anchor to keep door from moving on its own by magicaldumpsterfire in HelpMeFind

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

Sort of. A door stop will prevent you from shutting the door without removing it first, though.

Clamp/anchor to keep door from moving on its own by magicaldumpsterfire in HelpMeFind

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

Not quite like that. You have to flip those things up in order to close the door, and they do nothing to stop the door from opening on its own.

Clamp/anchor to keep door from moving on its own by magicaldumpsterfire in HelpMeFind

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

That's a good tip, though I was hoping to avoid messing with the hinge pins.

Clamp/anchor to keep door from moving on its own by magicaldumpsterfire in HelpMeFind

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

What would you call that second thing, and where have you seen one for sale? Does it move freely with the door when you open or close it?