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  1. Vyvyan Basterd

    D&D 5E (2014) The Illusion of Experience Points that Everyone Disbelieves

    I think one can only really speculate what the original game design was constructed for. If the original designers wanted to continue to play a pattern-recognition game I believe they would have just continued to expand the wargame line. By moving into the field of becoming your character they...
  2. Vyvyan Basterd

    D&D 5E (2014) The Illusion of Experience Points that Everyone Disbelieves

    The problem is that you seem to claim that all players do this. I don't. I play to have my PC act in the persona that I have created for him. This may not always be the best gameplay choice. It may not allow me to succeed at an objective or beat a module. It may even lead to my character's...
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    Legends & Lore: What Worked, What Didn't

    This. This is what I've always referred to as system mastery. I hated it. To compound things for my group, only half of the group enjoyed doing this. So on top of the the whacked out combos I had players who made suboptimal choices based on roleplaying reasons. The gap between the two types of...
  4. Vyvyan Basterd

    14 February

    Card, flowers, Lou Malnati's for tonight, and the guys are coming over for our weekly Friday night game. Going out tomorrow to our favorite burger joint Bulldogs and catching a movie.
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    Narrate This 3 HP Hit

    Well, yeah. If you narrated every hit then the more impactful moments would, well, lose impact. I save narration for big effects. Like the NPC ranger that was aiding the party scoring a crit with Multishot against the ogre leader that killed his brethren. "At sight of the monstrosity before you...
  6. Vyvyan Basterd

    Narrate This 3 HP Hit

    This is exactly why each hit can be (IMO needs to be) narrated differently. It does depend on the outcome. I prefer to narrate the end result, not predefine what a "3hp hit" is.
  7. Vyvyan Basterd

    Narrate This 3 HP Hit

    Other: A, B, or C. I would most often choose D during an actual game, but you asked us to narrate it, so D is out IMO.
  8. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    Unless you're subconsciously thinking you should run SPN in the morning...:devil: She says "uhhh, Dresden" in the morning, but it sounded very noncommital. :p Probably justs wants a chance to spend half a GameDay with me.
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    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    Et tu N-cat? :(
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    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    I will enjoy playing either Dresden game, so not much help there. Two Dresden events in the same slot plus your morning cognizance might be good reasons to flip. But it doesn't impact me either way except being forced to choose between two good games, but then I'm sure many already have that...
  11. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    OK, noticed you were using what looks like Chrome in your screenshots, so Laurie tried Chrome and the event is now showing on her dashboard. I tried Firefox and got the same result. IE8 wasn't showing the majority of the nav bars and buttons, so what I needed to click wasn't there to click. Let...
  12. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    That's because when we went to the event last night the button read "Registration is closed." Tonight I went back in and I clicked the button to register each of us and got a "thanks for registering" message, but when I go back to our dashboards it shows that we haven't registered for any events.
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    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    I registered both Laurie and I, but when I go to Warhorn I don't even see the green nav bar. :erm: If I could figure out how to post a screenshot I'd show you what I'm seeing. Morning would make me happy.
  14. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    OK, I could barely figure out how to login. There was no Login link on the site, I had to type "/login" after the website in the address bar to get to it. I definitely didn't see a "volunteer" link, but there's many ways to donate. I can't be certain whether this is a case of crappy site or...
  15. Vyvyan Basterd

    D&D 5E (2014) Wandering Monsters: Tiers of Play

    They aren't saying they are going to label adventures by tier. JW called this "informational" and "limited to advice to the DM." How can that be considered a marketing buzzword? They intend to use it as shorthand when giving advice to the DM instead of always having to print "for parties ranging...
  16. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    Even if I have to work all day (let's hope not) she will be there for both slots.
  17. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    I want to run MHRP and I have to keep my slot in the afternoon. I'm at a different company now where the 15th of the month is a Very Important Date. I explained to my manager that the start of planning was the point I needed to know whether I could volunteer, but that work came first so I needed...
  18. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    If you want my input (for either of you), it would be Dresden in the morning slot. But that's just me being selfish. I know Laurie would like to play Dresden again too.
  19. Vyvyan Basterd

    Chicago Gameday 37 Event Planning

    Time: afternoon slot, just in case I have to work Game system: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Event Title: It's a Nova Prime Thing! Description: The Worldmind has been downloaded and rescued.Now you just need to get it off-planet before the Annihilation Wave overtakes you and corrupts the Worldmind...
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    Do you eat fast food,if so what do you get and where do you go?

    Buckshot's much more effective. This week. And even if the coffee itself is good, most people aren't just drinking coffee anymore. Kinda Starbucks whole model to add a bunch of other stuff.
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