Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

You literally saw the thread title.

You knew it was going to be about this subject.

You say you hate this subject.

You posted there anyway.

I can’t even.

You posted this in a thread about Pineapple on Pizza, which everyone hates (or the are misinformed, or in denial), so...

 

[TiQuinn]

You posted this in a thread about Pineapple on Pizza, which everyone hates (or the are misinformed, or in denial), so...

But...but...

I like pineapple on pizza.

 

[Maxperson]

The 44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, bard?
-Snarf, on days that end in "y."

Mmmmmm. 44 Magnum.

 

[Maxperson]

 

[Cadence]

Mmmmmm. 44 Magnum.

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Magnum Classic made me immediately think of:

 

[Maxperson]

Anyone else use skill checks to give hints and info to the players?

This happens at least once every battle in my home games.

Me: "The skeletons shamble closer toward you, and you notice they have runes carved into their bones. These runes begin to smolder with a dirty orange light. Doug, you have the initiative."

Doug: "Well that's creepy. Have we encountered this sort of creature before? This sounds familiar."

Me: (knowing they haven't) "Let's find out. Make an Intelligence (Religion) check."

Doug: (rolls) "Woot, 21!"

Me: (mentally calculating, 10 + the monster's CR = 13, that's a pass. I give them one free bit of info.) "You haven't seen this kind of skeleton before, but it's definitely an undead monster. You recognize the runes from some of your spell scrolls--you suspect these skeletons can use magic."

Doug: "Oh great."

Me: (doing more mental math. The check passed by 8, and 8 divided by 4 is 2.) "With a roll of 21, I can tell you two more things about it. What would you like to know?"

Doug: "Um, what spells can cast, and how many hit points does it have?"

Me: "The skeleton closest to you can cast several spells, but the one you immediately recognize is Magic Missile. It has 22 hit points."

I do something similar. The differences are that I just give out the additional pieces of info and don't ask the players what they want to find out, and I would never give out hit points via a skill roll since hit points are a purely OOC player mechanic and the skill is IC.

 

[Maxperson]

Oh it totally is. That 4 works pretty well for my table, but I'm sure it's just one way of several.

Yep. Since DCs go up by 5 when hitting the next harder category, I went with every 5 above the DC gets you an additional piece of info. And since I like critical successes, a natural 20(if actually proficient) will get it all.

 

[Maxperson]

This Halloween I'm going to go as an emotionally stable person

Way to step outside of your comfort zone!

 

[Maxperson]

It's only one-true-wayism if stated by the one true Scotsman.

 

[Maxperson]

For once, I am not going to spike that.

Just ... let it sit there.

LOL Thanks!

Seriously, though, her memory is amazing. She is in corporate operations and several years ago the CEO at a corporation she used to work at asked the group at an executive meeting if X was in the employee handbook. My wife thought about it a moment and was like, it's on page Y about 3/4 of the way down. She had read that employee handbook once 2 years prior when the person updating it asked her opinion about the changes.

Meanwhile, I can't remember what I had for breakfast 2 days ago.