Ambiguously Gendered Revenge of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Knight Otu]

Oooh, right. I remember now. In that case, I choose to not give an AC at all and have the Ioun Bolt. I'll hang a match off of it and call it my lighting bolt.

Gah!

Yeah, a few of the characters are totally lost there, mine included. I totally wasn't expecting anyone to stop the battle in an attempt to talk, though. Interesting idea, but I want my xp. I can see why extended dialogues aren't a huge part of PbP games, though.

Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned battles to the enemies' death? Should have used spiders again. I didn't actually expect parlay until the definite end of the fight, to be honest, with one or two captured kobolds. And I kind of expected the parlay to come from Kahuna Burger, not Velmont.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, the point was just that math does not denote how good a person is. Intelligence is overrated, I think. I'll take a kindness to intelligence any day.

Me too! Although I would prefer not to have to deal with utterly stupid people on a regular basis if necessary, its still better than mean and evil people, liars, cheaters, thieves, etc.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Thus the part about "inviting all the same people".

The number of invitations vs. the number of actual attendees might differ. And most likely from one party to another... Are you basing on invitations or actual commitments?

 

[Jdvn1]

Heh, you should see our negotiations in Heirs to the Burning Throne. We spent like a week deciding what to do amongst the party, then when we did it, almost half the party members got upset. At least when we decided to have my character Diplomacy the NPC with the like +53 she had at level 10, the actual negotiations with the NPC basically went like this:

Me: Says stuff

NPC: Whatever you say.

This encounter started on 4-11-05. That's about three weeks ago?

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Wouldn't I need at least a basic understanding of algebra to build a Time Machine? And killing Euclid would on'y change the name of Euclidian Geometry, and make H.P. Lovecraft cry.

- Kemrain the Squamous.

That and chemistry, and physics, and quantum physics.... for starters.

 

[Knight Otu]

Hey! Take your fight to your own thread!

But... it's a hivemind fight! And only one thread there is. Never more, never less...

 

[Rystil Arden]

This encounter started on 4-11-05. That's about three weeks ago?

Yikes! That is pretty long. It depends on the speed of the GM and the main people involved in the parlay, though. In our case, we didn't need the GM for the in-character arguing, and once we got to actually talking to the NPC it was over almost before it began

That said, if Lasair ever gets an adventure, expect her to attempt parlay with anything intelligent and not demonic/undead/other-supremely-evil.

 

[Jdvn1]

Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned battles to the enemies' death? Should have used spiders again. I didn't actually expect parlay until the definite end of the fight, to be honest, with one or two captured kobolds. And I kind of expected the parlay to come from Kahuna Burger, not Velmont.

I could've taken them all! Mwahaha!

I think Wizards go for parlay more than Clerics because Wizards run out of spells and become ineffective. Clerics still have options.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Well, the point was just that math does not denote how good a person is. Intelligence is overrated, I think. I'll take a kindness to intelligence any day.

Me too. Although with just enough intelligence to be worth talking to rather than a dumb idiot...

 

[Jdvn1]

Me too! Although I would prefer not to have to deal with utterly stupid people on a regular basis if necessary, its still better than mean and evil people, liars, cheaters, thieves, etc.

Stupidity is only bad, I think, when people don't even try.