Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

Coming back from a 2- week trip to Germany so my relatives there could meet my daughter. So far the most WTF moment has been at Copenhagen Airport, where we, two adults burdened by several carry-ons and a one-and-a-half-year-old baby, had to negotiate an exterior set of metal stairs, in a poorly-illuminated part of the airport at night, in the pouring rain, by ourselves. There was nobody anywhere to be seen; if I hadn't have seen people still in the plane, I would've thought it was a zombie disaster movie, that part of the airport was so deserted.

 

[Ryujin]

Coming back from a 2- week trip to Germany so my relatives there could meet my daughter. So far the most WTF moment has been at Copenhagen Airport, where we, two adults burdened by several carry-ons and a one-and-a-half-year-old baby, had to negotiate an exterior set of metal stairs, in a poorly-illuminated part of the airport at night, in the pouring rain, by ourselves. There was nobody anywhere to be seen; if I hadn't have seen people still in the plane, I would've thought it was a zombie disaster movie, that part of the airport was so deserted.

Had a similar feeling at Seattle/Tacoma Airport, a few years back, when my flight arrived after curfew. It occurred before their recent expansion and the difference was my flight arrived late, after curfew, and it was the only time in the last 55 years that we had to use a rolling stairway to exit the plane on the tarmac. The airport was pretty much deserted, except for my fellow passengers on the Toronto to Seattle flight.

 

[Ryujin]

"Where can I watch this project that I TOTALLY backed but would know where I could watch it if I actually backed it?"

 

[Umbran]

An army of hirelings with magical weapons is pretty tough to beat.

Except with just about any area of attack. Like, if the dragon is of a level the PCs are supposed to fight, typical hirelings with magic weapons are bacon bits.

 

[Thomas Shey]

An army of hirelings with magical weapons is pretty tough to beat.

Contrary to popular opinion, sizeable groups of hirelings were not consistently something you could expect to have with you. And honestly, at the end of the day, the difference between "20 guys" and "20 guys with +1 swords" was only particularly noticeable if you were fighting something that needed magic weapons to hit.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Contrary to popular opinion, sizeable groups of hirelings were not consistently something you could expect to have with you.

Thank you, I've been playing since 1979.

And honestly, at the end of the day, the difference between "20 guys" and "20 guys with +1 swords" was only particularly noticeable if you were fighting something that needed magic weapons to hit.

By the time you've got 20 +1 magic weapons to spare, you're fighting stuff that requires magical weapons to hit.

 

[Ryujin]

Contrary to popular opinion, sizeable groups of hirelings were not consistently something you could expect to have with you. And honestly, at the end of the day, the difference between "20 guys" and "20 guys with +1 swords" was only particularly noticeable if you were fighting something that needed magic weapons to hit.

Typically my henchmen/hirelings stayed behind to make sure that we still had wagons and horses when we returned. When we got to levels that meant we weren't typically leaving such things behind it meant that the hirelings wouldn't likely have survived anyway, so we just didn't have them.

 

[overgeeked]

Not this thread.

That has got to be the most tortured reading of a rule I’ve seen all week. You should get a No-Prize.

 

[overgeeked]

Also not this thread, thank all the gods.

Damn. That thread really crawled up its own backside. It went from useful conversation to jargon-laden nonsense. I wonder why. Ah. Of course. Like clockwork.

 

[Umbran]

Thank you, I've been playing since 1979.

Broad statements of generalities don't negate personal experiences.

But folks, if you want to have meaningful discussion about an actual gaming topic, make a thread for it.