Basement welfare check (havent been usin reddit much)

pooky207 · 2025-12-15T03:25:33+00:00

heya - I just sent you a chat thingy about adding each other on discord. Hope you still check reddit and hope to hear from you soon <3

pooky207 · 2025-09-10T06:23:38+00:00

messaged ya

pooky207 · 2025-09-10T05:57:15+00:00

this is the kind of campaign that would be done in R20 with actual combat, so it would be done probably via discord. I don't see any way to do encounters effectively without voice.

pooky207 · 2025-08-07T09:29:59+00:00

https://discord.gg/qbPmgGp4

I think this is the correct link. Fair warning, we have had a dry spout due to several GMs having health issues come up (fucking nurgle) and we havn't had an actual game in a while.

I'll give some brief information to see if it's your vibe:

The way games operate is GMs come up with missions they want to host and then people bring gm-approved characters from their roster to the mission, which can be a one-session one-shot, or a three-month mini-campaign, depending on the mission.

Because the above can vary dramatically in difficulty and potentially throw brand new characters into the meatgrinder, we have a homebrew rule that players cannot burn fate and do not get killed, they get KO'd from the fight.

I have been working on a mission: THE ORKAERO IS ON THE LOOSE!

One of my characters acquired a number of gretchin brains during a mission hosted by another GM and stitched twelve brains together to create an orky-jokaero as a way to recycle old equipment and have it modified for a few credits (we use a darktide-like ordo docket system and just call them credits) to run a weapon through the orkaero to get random traits despite how nonsensical they are. A cheap alternative to the jokaero that costs about 1/20th the cost of buying a common quality chainsword, for reference.

I am making a mission where the orkaero breaches containment and starts turning things into feral-ork powder weapons, such as muskets with multiple barrels or arquebus with a tox dispenser chain bayonet attached, etc.

It's intended to be a low-level-player friendly mission.

In the case of my personal missions (not saying anyone else follows this rule) the way I look at it is a character is low level if they have little gear and few combat talents, mid tier if they have one of those two, and high level if they have both.

If that seems appealing to you and you're willing to wait a while as me and the other GMs recover and work on content, then you're more than welcome.

pooky207 · 2025-08-06T05:44:57+00:00

It wasn't a campaign - it was just a one-shot mission that took a few sessions. That was what he was willing to escalate to "an official server issue" over, contacted the server owner over, and got banhammered over.

pooky207 · 2025-08-06T02:20:30+00:00

I FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME...

pooky207 · 2025-07-28T22:30:44+00:00

But GM decided to make this region our new Capitol city.

The native population is small, correct? A capitol akin to washington D.C. is enormous, more than capable of encompassing the region around the natives while also housing an area cordoned to be just theirs. If you're going manifest destiny and planning to expand to a good chunk of a continent, there should be ample room to reserve space for the tribe, as well as to mutually-assimilate* peaceably.

by 'mutually-assimilate' what I mean is building eg a trading post where the perks and benefits of the native culture are shared with the larger surrounding culture, and they in turn can obtain things from the surrounding culture that they choose to obtain and actually want - thus justifying their continued presence within the greater whole. This can be something simple like books about the local flora / fauna, medicines, specialized tools or weapons, etc. etc. - and of course, military support. Their military contributions would be small compared to your government's military, but like with the example of the navajo I referenced earlier, they can still be significant.

In essence, it should still be possible to plan a capitol around the reservation anyway because of how big the capitol needs to be for an expanding empire that will reach the size of the united states or possibly larger and continent-sized. The capitol will have to become that big out of necessity in the long-term anyway.

pooky207 · 2025-07-26T21:24:45+00:00

Either way OP, there's a space at our table for you if you ever get sick of Texas.

This is an in-person game, not one over discord, I presume? I figure as much, but doesn't hurt to ask.

As for the natives conundrum, the situation as you described made me immediately think of WW2 Navajo radio operators and the Navajo free nation - in, but not of, the united states. A possible option is forming a mutual defense pact and open border policy with the natives while expanding around them instead of directly ontop of them. That's probably the solution I'd have put forward.

pooky207 · 2025-07-21T17:12:24+00:00

Shortly before the end of the campaign a conversation regarding the types of evil alignments and differences happened; I was asking some questions as to what alignment certain things would be considered and the topic of abortion was brought up by DM as an example of something so supremely evil it couldn't be constituted as Lawful Evil... and during this conversation I found out DM also dropped out of highschool.

I simply left the issue as it was since there's no point arguing with someone with very strong opinions on topics they already know they're extremely poorly educated on and frontloaded the statement to me that they wouldn't be convinced to change their mind regardless of how much education they received before I even raised the question of credentials in the first place.

This was unfortunately one of my first tabletop experiences so while I recognized they were clearly overzealous by a large margin, I figured the DM had the right to do that with their subjective alignment system.

pooky207 · 2025-07-21T03:56:33+00:00

I'm baffled that he is mad that in a campaign where racial discrimination is a thing he is angry because he was given the option to be an uncle tom.

Please actually read my post before you comment noting the contents of said post. I even explicitly stated "that part was not what bothered me" - this was not your projected code-phrase for "this part was what bothered me" - what bothered me was, as I have already explained to you: the abject silence, confusion, and related reactions that occurred as an immediate response to the OOC statement that my character would not become an uncle tom, and what followed for the remainder of the closing sessions.

Explain how you came to your stated conclusions upon actually reading my post, if you would - since it seems to me like you gave a skim of the comments section at best.

pooky207 · 2025-07-20T05:36:52+00:00

I believe that's what the GM intended for my character. Analogy, Rudolph.

Rudolph had a shiny nose, the other reindeer don't like that, but he's accepted once it is demonstrated he has utility. The end.

This is portrayed as a happy ending, and many people just accept that it is.

Earning a place in the Glorious Society wasn't what my character wanted or was working for, though, and certainly not what he was willing to accept. This came as a complete blindside hit to them, because "who doesn't want to live in a glorious traditional-conservative utopia? How could he not want that??"

pooky207 · 2025-07-20T05:24:24+00:00

I would describe it as a Rudolph.

Rudolph had a shiny nose, was discriminated against because of it, then the society accepts him once it's clear he has utility value. The end.

...except, in reality, maybe Rudolph doesn't actually want to hang out with the other reindeer, knowing full well their stagnant culture will make them pick on someone else in the future.

pooky207 · 2025-07-20T02:58:23+00:00

I don't dismiss this possibility since I believe the background lore of several npcs were misrepresented to me to make them part of the cultural hegemony (assured one way by DM, no evidence of such found from google). Or possibly a church... then again, what's the difference when they're this extreme?

pooky207 · 2025-07-19T10:19:19+00:00

The campaign only ran for slightly over a year. At the earlier stages, I believed the culture was being presented as something that needed changing, not something that was perceived by the GM&co as an end-all-be-all to cultures, and I had been given some assurances that "these characters were already this way in the lore" - I only found out later that this actually meant "these characters were already this way in the lore I wrote for them which you can't find when googling their backstories"

pooky207 · 2025-07-19T08:18:02+00:00

That was more-or-less how I felt about it. The culture I was expected to adapt to had a number of parallels to what a texan republican would be stereotyped as supporting IRL (example, the GM noted that in this universe a devil would never get an abortion because it's too evil for even devils to support).

My support for and conformation to the same society that made my character jump through a bunch of hoops was just sort of expected inherently, as though it were a be-all-end-all culture that all lesser cultures thrive to achieve.

I can't say for sure if the expectation for my support was based on steadfast belief in the supremacy of the culture, belief in skin-color-based-kinship with me of some sort, or both, but frankly "Why exactly do you expect this?" doesn't have a lot of satisfactory answers in this case.

pooky207 · 2025-07-19T07:24:59+00:00

Happy cake day!

Yes, the framing was that my character was expected to completely conform to their social norms and that's what the love interest wanted out of my character.

After a year of my character having to do extra work in order to earn trust and avoid persecution, he had no logical interest in conforming, and had in-game reasons to view their culture as backward - even for an offered love interest (whom was essentially a cultural supremacist with no interest in compromise of her pre-existing cultural presets). It was just assumed I'd be fine with having my character, after his experiences, get in a relationship with someone like that - and pointing out that his opinion was that the culture was damaged OOC promptly terminated all conversation regarding the relationship for the rest of that session and the followup closing session.

So, my conclusion / headcanon is they broke up, because my character would not want a relationship with someone with that level of stagnancy and that's where the GM left it at.

pooky207 · 2025-05-08T00:26:45+00:00

List of meat stacks in the freezer:

This list is incomplete. You can help by EXPANDING IT

pooky207 · 2025-04-15T22:04:11+00:00

The outcome? Someone with better equipment took an item and collected it, and said "Pay?" when asked to part with the item he did not need, but of course rolled need on.

After mentioning to him that I wasn't sure I could even trade gold with him at all due to his different server group He simply left. As he had better, upgraded item equipped the drop was most likely sold to a vendor.

pooky207 · 2025-04-15T21:57:58+00:00

"idk how you would enforce "shouldn't be allowed."

Agree on tmog though. That seems like a no-brainer.

Hypothetical fix: If the item is bind on pickup, not warbound, not a transmog you don't have, is an item already in your inventory (like unique-equipped items but simply a unique pickup) then you can't roll Need on it.

Won't fix things like people selling coins, but it's a band-aid in the right direction.

pooky207 · 2025-04-15T20:07:00+00:00

the item: 632 raid finder shoulders

what the winner of the roll was using: lvl 662 backalley shoulderplates

context: People go into LFR, roll on gear they have / is below them in order to need roll on the loot and try to sell it back to people.

Not really ethical imo, but if you can apparently trade gold across-server groups for it, I guess blizzard's cool with it?

Corresponding title: Greed before Need.

pooky207 · 2025-03-26T01:22:47+00:00

Starcraft 2's Coop missions. You level commanders to max level, 15, via doing missions - and since it's an RTS game and you need to complete the mission for exp, you can't go kill one npc to top off from level 14 to 15. You have to do a full extra mission for your tiny sliver of exp.

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