... ok? That's awesome... and stuff...

What is a "gaint"?

Im bored and its lame...

Giant...i cant spell at all.

From 2-4pm today, until 2-4pm on Monday, I will be traveling. I will have my phone and laptop, so I can still check the games, but my posting rate may suffer.

Or, you may see no difference at all. It all depends on wifi availability and how long I'm doing what I'm doing while I'm there (grandpa's 80th birthday dinner party and mini-family reunion).

Walking out the door now. Spending the night at my parents' house. Not sure if they have wifi or whatever now. Leaving the state the day after in the morning. Possibly see you kids on the flip side, possibly before.

Posting on the phone is a bit rough. Please excuse small typos and the like. The time in the subject will be a bot behind as well.

I'll go back and OCD edit everything the next time I'm at a computer.

4.50$ bourbon drinks at the bar across the street turned into a bout of edward 40-hands. I am struggling to type right now. Forgive the stagnant posting rate for the next while.

$4.50 seems a little pricey, but I also don't buy bourbon drinks that often(read: at all) so I guess I can't really say from experience.

I'm not even sure I wanna know what "Edward 40-hands" is...

Take a 40 oz thing of alcohol strap one to each hand and you cant remove them till you have drank them.

That's a lot better then I was expecting, also sounds fun as hell. Thanks for the info.

$4.50 for liquor is pretty good unless you're in a college town.

If it's a single, a little pricy depending on the brand.

If it's a double, hot. Give me some.

Drinks at most bars in this town (college town) are what would normally be considered a double. If you order a double, it's basically just straight alcohol.

Oh yeah, nothing's come up yet so it should be okay, but I just realized you should probably add at least the mature tag to this game, given the language we tend to use in public areas and whatnot. I can't remember if there's been enough descriptive gore to warrant adult for safety's sake, but if any Mature should be enough.

I've thought about that, and after reading RPoL's rules, we're in a gray area. Generally speaking, if you're not sure, it's better to be safe than sorry.

At the same time, I think it's ridiculous that saying "shit" or "god damn" in a game makes it mature. Kids hear that stuff on the school bus. This is the internet. Going to rpol.net and finding our specific game is a hell of a lot harder than going to, say, 4chan. For every blocked site some poorly-written software content blocker stops kids from going to, there are six more it doesn't block. If parents use a white list instead, and don't investigate what a large number of people post about on this site... yeah. No.

This game as yet has only had language and violence as bad as on cable television. We've not covered any dark themes apart from stabbing people, armed thievery, and the general theme of bad guys doing bad things. The phrase "raping and pillaging" being used out of context in everyday speech is more of an affront to children than this game could possibly be.


If parents can't keep their 11 year old or younger kids off of rpol, they can't keep them away from far, far worse things on basic cable, the general public, or, you know, the fucking internet.


So no. Unless explicitly told by a moderator to change the tag of the game, I don't plan on doing it. It might be a decent idea to make the OOC threads private, though.


"Adult" covers really fucking creepy shit that will never come up in this game. If it is ever suggested that we make this game adult by a moderator, we'll pack up and go somewhere else, and the periodic small donations I make to rpol will stop.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:09, Tue 29 May 2012.

I agree, I was just noting it since I've seen a few games get shut down for 2 weeks or whatever because the GM didn't put a tag on, or put the adult tag on and didn't get age confirmation from some players, or did any of the other 6547 things you're not supposed to do etc...

I was just noting it since I didn't want any of us to get in trouble, for instance I know someone who can't join mature/adult games because long time ago a GM didn't ask for age confirmation, now he isn't allowed into or to run games with that content- and he gets moderated regularly.

Meh. I asked the new guy(s) how old they were. I think I've talked to all of you about your age or we've all volunteered the information at some point in the past just bullshitting. I'll send out a PM here in a sec asking all of you how old you are.

Well you don't have to unless it's an adult game(or Mature for GMs who just wanna be sure), but I've seen games ask for that even without the tags to know if they're bringing some 13 year old in who's gonna be...well 13 all over the place >.>

Game of Thrones is either a really high quality yet lackluster softcore porn, or an HBO series about a pretty damn good fantasy setting.

Either way, I'm enjoying it.

Guess that officially makes me the only person I know who hasn't watched it or read it.

I've seen the first episode and would like to see the rest.

BTW, I think it's Dai's turn. He delayed until after Jaga.

Looks like Dai already said something.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:26, Thu 31 May 2012.

Looking over the playtest materials for "D&D Next"... it's like they slapped on some really, really basic houserules onto 3.5

It's literally just a bridge between 3.5 and 4.0. I don't know if I have an opinion yet.

tes(or anyone): Can you remind me on something? Can a wizard cast a spell with somatic components while holding a quarterstaff even though it's a two-handed weapon? I can't find mention of it but...that wouldn't leave a hand free, right? I mean you could always just 'hold' it in one hand, but what action(if any) would it be to swap back to two-handed so you can threaten squares?

The Sahuagin Baron took a hand off of his 2H weapon in order to grapple me with his 'free' hand as an attack of opportunity. Judging by that circumstance, taking a hand off of a 2H weapon is an immediate action, or at least can be part of any triggered action such as an AoO.

I remember because I was really, really pissed about it and almost died for something I didn't know was possible. Taking a hand off of a 2H weapon to cast a spell is part of the standard action to cast the spell in the first place. Holding it in 2H again? Probably also part of the same action, it takes a split second to do. This is going by what's happened in the past, I never found a ruling on it.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:48, Fri 01 June 2012.

Taking one's hand off of a two handed weapon (or putting it back on) is a free action.

Some people house-rule it to be a non-action that you can do even when it is not your turn. I am not one of those people. Much like having your eyes closed or open, you decide at the end of your turn what your hands are doing, and they stay that way until your next turn.

Say you're a Wizard 6/Swiftblade 3 and you took martial weapon proficiency: greatsword. On your turn, you just take a hand off of your sword to cast whatever spell you want, and then put it back on.

Moreover, a quarterstaff is a double weapon, not a two-handed weapon. The difference is subtle, but you can still wield a quarterstaff in one hand and attack with it just fine. Go read the damn SRD.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equi...ons.htm#quarterstaff


And you don't have to take your hands off of weapons or shields in order to grapple someone. You can do it with your hands full. I don't remember exactly what you're talking about with the baron fight, but it might have just been for flavor purposes that I described him taking his hand off of his trident. It was a one-handed weapon anyway; he was simply using it with two for the higher bonus damage on his primary attack. Plus, it looked awesome.

And the baron was, well, is, by far my favorite mini-boss. You guys let him run away to fight another day.

In reply to teslas (msg #230):

Far as I can tell it ONLY counts as a one-handed weapon when fighting with it using TWF

I don't think you're as stupid as your statement implies, but I know you're unobservant and lazy. Go back and read the text for double weapon. Read the text for quarterstaff. Everything you need to know about them is right there and pretty damn easy to understand.

If you seriously don't understand after that point, I don't know what to do for you.