ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling

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This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____.

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ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Honestly the theological debates are what drew me into loving the setting

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I kinda want to get together with my gaming group to make characters in FATAL and take the piss on the poor author

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Thank you for the kind warning, stranger. I will heed your words.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

IMHO, GURPS's reputation as being inscrutible is surprisingly unearned. Imagine if the next version of Dnd launched with a rebalanced version of every subclass released over 5e's history, every spell from 5e, every feat (even the useless ones), every magic item and the guides to create new ones, the entire Dungeon Master's Guide, and at least one chaper summarizing the history of the forgotten realms. Imagine if all of that was in the core book, which is so large it comes in volumes like an encyclopedia. That's what the GURPS 4e core book is. In reality its more of a reference document. All the rules you need to play are either on your character sheet or were used to make your character.

Personally I think it's reputation comes from it's biggest supporters. Rules lawyers and pendants, the lot of them.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I am so sick of these unrealistic body standards.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

Satan, is that you?

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I would argue that for game purposes, having an E on your character sheet means "I like inter-party conflict so much I am willing to instigate it" whereas having an unaccompanied N on your sheet means "I just want to have fun with my party". Tasha is, as far as I know, a team player like 75% of the time, so I would accept her being true neutral as long as she does not inflict her sadism on things that affect the party negatively

I am also perfectly down with having people with a G on their character sheet do horrifying things "for the greater good". They have indicated they want to be a hero by writing that G on their character sheet, so as long as the other people at the table think their actions are heroic then there is no issue.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I think you are confusing "inter-party conflict" with the players at the table getting mad at each other. For example, last session, my LE artificer and the CG rogue were experiencing some conflict regarding him making a pact with my warlock patron, which in-game devolved into my artificer threatening to kill his adopted son while he threatens to kill me. Out of game, we had a quick conversation that went something like this:

Me: I don't really want this character to die, but just so you know I have this bugbear Rogue I've been dying to play for years, so don't feel bad about stabbing Artificer to death.

Friend: I don't want to do PvP right now either. But I am really attached to Son and I might not be able to forgive you OOG for killing him

Me: Fair enough, I promise that I won't go through with it.

Then we went right back to RPing our characters threatening to stab each other's loved ones. Thats what I mean by inter-party conflict. If you can't be civil at the table, you're either being a bully or you're going to be kicked out of the table.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I think what you are proposing sounds similar to what I said at the end of my first comment.

Example: most people I've talked to about Goblin Slayer peg his alignment as Lawful Good, but I'm fairly certain if you decided to do ethnic cleansing in your game the other players might take issue with that.

I think the strongest counterargument would be something similar to playing as a sort of Monster Rights activist in a more traditional sword & sorcery setting, trying to get kobolds and goblins standing in civilized society so people cant just kill them for fun. You'd be facing a lot of opposition from the world, and your goals likely run perpendicular to those of the other players, but that seems like the same kind of fun as what I am doing in my campaign. However, based on my argument earlier, this would be a Lawful Evil character lmao

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

They took the precious, they did!

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Aw man. I really liked that community

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

In games I run, mimics hate being covered in alcohol because it dissolves their sticky goo stuff, but can still be bribed with beer because it makes them feel great.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Technically, if you look at what Charisma rolls do in practice, it's more akin to Constitution but for your mind. I personally like to use Constitution as the physical prettiness score and Charisma as the "force of will" stat.

I know that's counterintuitive as hell, but it's what the rules lead me to believe. You don't roll Int/Wis to resist having your soul rent asunder, after all. Besides, I think this lines up with how attractiveness works irl. I've met plenty of physically attractive people who become absolutely repulsive when you just get to know them the tiniest bit.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Maybe it's a 5e thing. I only got into DnD in 4e when I was a kid, so maybe that was the transition point for that. As long as I have been playing, wisdom was for avoiding/deflecting psychic effects whereas Charisma was for withstanding effects that can just hit you with no chance of escape. It's analogous to making dex save to dodge a poison dart trap, but having to make a Con save to resist the poison itself.

The way I have been exposed to it, you use Intelligence to see through an illusion, Wisdom to avoid being charmed, and Charisma to avoid being NPCified into a mindless thrall of the big bad.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I suppose it's better to say that for as long as I have been playing, the stats for "save or die" saving throws were either Constitution or Charisma. In fairness, these rolls were rare, but I have been trained that when the DM says "Make a Charisma saving throw" my bowels automatically loosen while I dig out my next character sheet from my folder.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

It's not really well defined metaphysically, and I'm not sure there's any directed intention in the design plan here (at least not that I can tell.) -

I have been thinking about exactly this, because the more I think about it the more I wonder why all the DMs I've played with have come to the exact same conclusions when they have to improvise something that doesn't follow a monster stat block or a spell description. I think it comes down to how in Planescape when you are astral projecting, you substitute your Str for Int, Dex for Wis, and Con for Cha.

For the record, I had no idea that this was a 2nd edition thing. I thought that this was just how Astral Projection worked! So, it seems that the DMs and who showed me how DnD is done were old-school players who internalized this into a broader design philosophy, which became a teaching I learned as obvious fact.

I had to do a lot of googling to try and find where this came from, and I'm not 100% sure I am right, but it is pretty frustrating that the only design guidance I had for this doesn't even come from the text itself.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I believe this was addressed in one of the comics: She uses the hammer itself as a portable frying pan.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I feel like I am missing something. Why is Toron wondering how Konsi is still alive?

I use linux for the same reason I wear fuzzy socks and sweaters

My understanding of the history of fashion is that back in the 1950s America it was expected that you wore a suit/dress at work unless you had a different uniform. There were a bunch of very boring people who thought that we should be wearing office job garb all the time, because they wore suits so much it was their default...

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

Microsoft is the suits. Suits are for office work. Microsoft is for office work.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Wait, I thought your choice of God determined what domain you were? Isn’t tymora the god of forges?

Edit: I may be stupid, but I’m also a dolt

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I’m just waiting for someone to put furry porn in there

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I remember when I first saw Graham. I was so excited that I immediately homebrewed him into my D&D campaign as a playable human subrace. I felt so hopeful that one day we could genetically engineer ourselves into something as cool as Graham....

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

Basically imagine if a tabaxi and a dwarf had a baby. +3 con as its only modifier, the tabaxi’s lunge but only as a reaction, +1 to AC unless wearing heavy armor.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I have no idea why she would think someone who is trying to “domesticate” her is a nice person. But I guess it didn’t last long enough for the NRE to wear off.

Also I find it funny that Razira dated high-fantasy Andrew Tate

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I think Konsi needs to take Razira on a date somewhere else

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Or konsi is special enough for her to be worth the effort

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Some sort of quantum bone kaleidoscope creature made out of sentient statistics or something. It seemed to prefer presenting as some sort of large dog. I have no idea what the fuck it was, but it nearly killed my monk. I still think about it sometimes.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Nah it was more like a swarm of platonic solids which each individually divide and recombine and change shape several times a second, like a metaphor for quantum foam that was trying to kill us.

I’m assuming you’re a dice hoarder like me? Pour all your dice into a pan and vibrate it as fast as you can without spraying dice all over the place. That’s what it looked like, except it mainly chose to take the form of an quadruped because that’s what it thought looked prettiest. I think it was trying to kill us because it thought bipedal creatures are ugly?

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I love this

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Ooh pretty

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

God I wish my party had time to over-prepare. Shit just keeps getting worse.

I go into these sessions with a mindset of “well, at least we can’t be more screwed than we already are” and then the entire fucking army shows up or the Big Bad shows up with a three-headed kaiju that can breathe cones of hellfire, acid, and regenerating zombie snakes. We are level 3! What the fuck.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I don’t think its a matter of beating it at this point. At the beginning of the campaign, there were 50 remaining children who we were supposed to be protecting. There are now 12 left, all of them are trapped with my character in their grandma’s house, there’s a army controlled by their aunt outside who are trying to find and kill them, the roc kaiju is likely circling overhead to attack us if we try to sneak out, the poison bomb they killed most of the children with is billowing out of the school next door and is heading downwind towards us, and the Emperor is being held hostage by the snake-generating dog kaiju. Also half the party went off to fight a necromancer with a couple of the princes, and are currently stuck in the catacombs behind a 30 ft deep wall of said princes’ dead relatives.

We just need to get the kids out somehow, and I’m not confidant we can do that

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

My man. The only group I’ve ever convinced to play GURPS had previously preferred Shadowrun 5e and Pathfinder 1e for all the highly specific rules. But your autism levels are clearly higher than any of us

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I love Konsi’s little 👉👈 when Toron asks her what this is all about

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I love it when people like that open their mouth so I know to block them

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Honestly reminds me of how much work my fiancée had to put into convincing me that she did in fact want to date me and liked me a whole lot. Took me two weeks to figure that out.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Honestly reminds me of how much work my fiancée put into convincing me that yes, she did in fact want to date me. Took her two weeks of texting to figure out she needed to tell me with words

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Sometimes your comics make me wish I hadn’t decided that my D&D character was asexual lol. There’re been a few NPCs that have attempted to flirt with 泰山

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

It’s been previously established that Taishan is confused by the concept of relationships in general. I could rp this as being so busy he never had time to work on his own feelings, though. This would fit with how I’ve rped his various traumas.

Another option is to take inspiration from one of the other players at the table, since theres some implied S.A. in Taishan’s edgy as hell backstory. It is possible that he’s confused sex trauma with actual asexuality. Even though this is the more logical route to take, I don’t want to potentially trigger the other player since they are currently getting therapy for exactly that trauma.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

This sent me into full-body convulsions. How could you do this to me

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

God I feel that

I’m so grateful my fiancée was so persistent, or I might never have figure out she liked me back

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I actually found out about Brave from a post like this, and now it’s my daily driver. I hope they keep posting and getting the word out!

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

piracy also kept the music industry afloat

And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Gurps is hands-down my favorite system, but it’s reputation is so terrible I’ve only once convinced a group of players to play it, and only for one session

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

This just popped up in my feed again. I had almost forgotten that reddit still exists. Fuck you.

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