>>4991
>I'd like to give Cat keen hearing and a +2 bonus on perception for smell.
Awesome!
Not gonna refuse a free bonus!

Opportunity Attacks

5e states that there is only one reaction per round and this includes opportunity attacks. This is hard to fathom that one orc passing an angry dragon would get slaughtered but the rest of the hoard could pass by without a care. So there are unlimited opportunity attacks. This makes front liners important again.

>>5053
Consider the following scenario:
>50 orcs simultaneously pass by an angry dragon.
How many orcs can the dragon massacre one by one in the few seconds a round represents? 50?

Or imagine the battle of Thermopylae:
1 angry Spartan hoplite blocks the narrow passage while 300K Persians try to zerg rush him. He stabs each of them with his spear as opportunity attack. Thus the Persian invasion of Greece ends.
Really now?

I think just like a creature normally only has 1 action per turn it should indeed only have 1 reaction. It can't react 50 times because there isn't enough time in a round for it to do so.

So yeah I think the 5e wording makes sense. I'm open for compromise but unlimited reactions are insane.

>>5056
>How many orcs can the dragon massacre one by one in the few seconds a round represents? 50?

How do 50 orcs pass in 6 seconds?

Both are ridiculous scenarios. But I've solved it. You're welcome.

>while 300K Persians try to zerg rush him

No, they try to rush past him and he can't attack because it's not his turn but he can stab at just one if they try to leave within 5ft of him. ??

[Ashley] Leave it up to good ole' Big Sissy Joy to solve everything, gotta love her.

>Thus the Persian invasion of Greece ends.

>Really now?
Yes really. Pats self on back.

>>5056
>>5059

"Rule #1 =The DM is God. The DM can change anything at any time for any reason. If you don't like the way the DM has ruled, you might be able to argue but the DM's final ruling is the final ruling. Even if the rulebook has an entirely different rule from the one the DM just used, the DM's ruling is final."

[Ashley] She might be letting the power get to her a bit, but to be honest, this almost never comes up. I think I've never seen it happen twice in one turn let alone from the same mob or hero, and we're level 4's now in the other run. In fact, the only time I ever saw it was when the rothé did it. Like, it never happens.

>>4700
No, I just wanted to go swimming!
But host is so lazy and slow and then was like meh maybe not, it's too much of a hassle. I had to yell a lot. But I was swimming in the end.
Don't like getting yelled at? Then don't give me a reason to!

>>4701

Bear's back to swimming at the University for the summer twice a week with Bestie's lessons

>>5

Any change of upping the character allowance on a post to 10,000 characters instead of 4,000?

It would save me from budgeting formatting and other things. My posts tend to be 6000 characters and occasionally 7000 but I have to break it in specific points so I end up with 2400, 3000 and 600 in three separate posts like this time.

>>4971
>Any change of upping the character allowance on a post to 10,000 characters instead of 4,000?
Not really.
I'd have to convince Admin-san to fiddle with the chan engine. 4.000 chars is already generous if you consider the average length of a post here. Also I guess 10K has quite some abuse potential to overwhelm the server with a large amount of large messages.

I'd prefer splitting text walls into shorter posts, it's hard to see if there is something hidden in long scrollable posts. I've overlooked things several times because I didn't realize there was more if you scroll down. The post scroll bar isn't visible unless you have the cursor inside the post.

>>4980

I wasn't sure if it was on your end or not.

>>4504
Organs are super awesome and were the most complex human-made devices until the early 20th century. An organ essentially is a huge mechanical computer full of logic circuits. Operated by air going through valves instead of electricity through transistors. It can have several ten-thousand pipes (yes indeed) which can be combined by a set of stops or registers (the knobs at the side). They are mechanical switches determining which and how many pipes are activated when you press a key on one of the keyboards. It's insanely complicated and the biggest organs were operated by dozens of people.
Nowadays much is automated by electronic switches.

The keyboards are called manuals and control a set of pipes called ranks that are equivalent of an entire instrument. Theres also the pedal clavier for bass. An organ is literally a medieval synthesizer capable of producing a huge repertoire of sounds. Extremely powerful sounds from infra- to ultransonic. Far more than any modern speaker. At the cost of size, complexity and cost.

Unfortunately I know virtually nothing about music, can't play an instrument or even read notes. But this is high-tier science.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JeB3JnKp8To

>>4536
Wow I had no idea that's amazing!! The guy must have awesome muscle memory to do so much with hands and feet.

>>4490
Four Bear sisters in a far off land... Can you spot them all?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y1PlUThxES0 [Embed]

It's just good music.

[Ashley] Yeah, fuck those donkey raping shit eaters for banning a good song.

[Gwen] It'll always live on in our hearts.

[Freya] I'm the Asian one, not in my current form, but my original form.

>>4731
Yes I know this video!
Isn't it nice?

Germans keep singing AUSLÄNDER RAUS so nobody dares to play the song at public events.

I was coming home but my home was a sort of bar with a TV. Friends were sitting there and celebrating Trump's election victory with cheers. The results had just come in. It only lasted a few seconds but was very realistic and vivid. That was before that debate btw. And I don't really care much anout Trump I live on the opposite side of the world from the US. No Cat either.

>>4449
>I wasted all evening trying to generate an image of me wearing the kitsune mask but it's impossible.
heres Yulya driving a horse cart

>>4473
I told you you're perfectly suited for picking locks! We're counting on you! I'll stick to weed & pest control and laundry service, that's all I'm good for.

>>4475
That hooorse!
Also is she carrying a gun? Why?

>>4477

>At the road fork, Alice watches the continuing high road to prevent ambushes from behind.

Yes, very good and useful. Now I have to figure out how I can still ambush you- I mean, how to make sure your journey is successful and productive.

>>4480
>ambush us
Who says we are the ones being ambushed?

Question:
The large cart is continuing on the high road going north. It's not gonna crash into our cart on the triboar trail, right? We're not in the way of those stubborn Rothès, right?

>>4494

>The large cart is continuing on the high road going north. It's not gonna crash into our cart on the triboar trail, right?

>We're not in the way of those stubborn Rothès, right?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y_PrZ-J7D3k [Embed]

>>4486
>Not even 10 paces in

10 paces is 20-30 feet.

A horse drawn carriage is 17-20 feet long with the horses. The configuration of your cart is either 4 abreast or 2x2. Right now it's 2x2, so you could add 8-10 feet to your length.

So any way you look at it, you're just out of the way, they'll pass within 10 feet.

Inconvenient but highly necessary question.

I don't know about Cat but I know that both me and Yulya have a huge problem with mortality in general and seeing our friends die permanently and 4real would be a traumatizing experience. We won't just choose the similarly named replacement from the guild and carry on, that would be disrespectful to the deceased party member and friend. Honestly, that's 2real4me and it would suck. You know I'm still a tupper of my Highly Sensitive Person host who'd mourn the loss of a D&D character for real and the party dynamics would be quite awkward with having to play a different newbie. And just using the 'replacement' to bring back the dead character 1:1 would be cheating. In this case death would have no consequences at all. So yeah, I'm not sure about the optimal way to handle this but I would like to remind our dear higher plane beings that this party was assembled for a divine mission of great importance. We are doing their dirty work, might as well request some protection in return.

Personally I won't say not having to worry about death but it should be manageable to return. Imagine someone would die on our first mission. It takes 2000 gp to revive her. We would have to play for weeks IRL just to earn that money until that player can return. That's not very feasible and sucks having to wait at the sideline until you respawn. I don't really know how to handle this. We certainly won't be reckless but death should not have such dramatic IRL consequences for the player. The character should be able to return at least for the next mission.

Also I still have the coolest revival spell ever as monk of the Way of Mercy:
LV 17 Hand of Ultimate Mercy (TCoE)
lets you revive a creature per long rest for free, well it costs 5 KI points

So should we ever play long enough to reach lv17 the problem is solved pretty much. I can reassemble everyone.

The real problem is me however. I already stated I cannot be revived by terms of magic or the church because I do not have a soul. I am a machine. I would rather propose that I slowly regenerate unless supplied with materials to speed things up. Also I cannot even be healed once in living metal form either. This is the price to pay for being OP as fuck. I must regenerate myself, I would even propose that 'death' throws me back one form into emergency recovery mode. living metal->viscous->liquid. So I will be fine, I'm extremely tough. Spells like disintegrate will remain a problem however. Do you have any proposals, Joy?

>>4209
>You know I'm still a tupper of my Highly Sensitive Person

Yes, and whereas my headmates seem to crave hardcore rules, and I've read online about how many others also want permadeath, I do still recall a young Bear who refused to maim or kill his characters (me). So I can understand that this could be both unwanted, not fun and traumatic.

>that this party was assembled for a divine mission of great importance

>I'm not sure about the optimal way to handle this

As far as I'm concerned this is about fairness and I am very against cheese, like what Bear used to do with save-scumming in Rimworld, I didn't like it then and don't like it now. Nor would I allow Frodo-esque death scenes where he's not really in any real danger.

So if the characters can never die, that's probably too safe and if they have a chance to die pointlessly, I also don't like that and SheShe and I can argue about it but I'm the DM here.

The way I read it, after level 9, characters are very hard to kill and keep dead. We're mostly talking about level 1-4 getting harder to kill the higher the level and with Revivify at level 5, the fear of death would be far less.

>We would have to play for weeks IRL

i agree with Alice never thought about it but how does vanilla d&d actually handle this?
you meet up with friens to play and your character dies so you can go home and they tell you lol come back in a few months when we got the money to revive you you cant play with us until then?

deat should have severe consequences but theres gotta be some limit or gameplay is ruined. our tuppers play themselves and dont want ro play another character obviously so they need to be brought back somehow. i didnt know about Alices monk feature but thats lv17 lol. no idea how we handle that now. 2000 gp cost is the same as permadeath we gotta save every penny thats why Yulya always told everyone to be super careful. honestly we dont mind to play it safe we dont have to battle challenge 10+ type monsters lets get real were rookies. slow and steady no drama

>>4224
>how does vanilla d&d actually handle this?

It's not set in stone as far as how individual DMs handle it but if I'm understanding it correctly:

If you receive damage >2x max hp, that's an instant kill, no saving throws. If your HP goes below -max hp then same, dead. If you go below 1, you must make three successful saving throws before three unsuccessful ones, once per turn. Or be stabilized or healed.

I relaxed it to no instant kill, your hp would be set at minimum -max hp and start your saving throws. SheShe is allowing one saving throw at the point where damage exceeded -max hp if you pass that it counts toward your passed saving throws and you need only 2 more, but you fail you die.

I am proposing that you may want a different system all together and we should discuss it.

Vanilla D&D is harsh and TPK (total party kill) is common.

>you meet up with friens to play and your character dies so you can go home and they tell you lol come back in a few months when we got the money to revive you you cant play with us until then?

Oh, not exactly, they either let you create a new character with a new backstory and start at level 1 again or are boosted to the level of the party. No one stops playing on death unless the group doesn't want you back as a player.

>>4225

Based on your comments and other sources, I have tentatively worked out a strategy with SheShe that will make death less deadly but also still costly in different ways but more reasonable at lower levels.

The penalties for higher levels have increased, however; it's far less likely that you will ever die past level 4 and extremely unlikely past level 8.

Changes effect Revivify, Raise Dead and Resurrection. These three spells will be replaced. Other spells and abilities have not changed.
Stay tuned for its implementation.

>>4100

It's fucking rediculous

>>3955
even moar perfect how do you make this shit?

Joy's checklist

>>3958
>given up any resistance

Pld send help

>>792

Update on this book.

It made it to maybe 50k words but no matter how awful and heinous I made it, I'd here about some atrocity that actually happened that trumped me.

I literally couldn't make it hard enough and even to the point I would make myself disgusted, nope, not hard enough.

Then the kind of stuff that Aleshe had to deal with in that book, no wo der she wanted to self-delete by becoming part of Autumn and I don't have the heart to do that to Autumn, she's too good, we made her right this time so I don't want to mess that up.

No, it's done, it's scrapped.

In the end, Autumn taught me that I am just not hard enough. I saw myself through her loving eyes and now I can't dissapoint her.

[Ashley] this is f'ing bs, I had plenty of loving eyes moments and he couldn't care less.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>4069
Didn't I tell you no fiction no matter how grim-dark can match the horrors of reality? This is why I never understood why people would make ugly things on purpose. Aren't there enough already?

I have officially begun integration with the character Aleshe.

I started by accepting all of her memories and previous actions as my own but reserve the right to reject anything I don't like or that doesn't fit me.

My form will not change as a result, we are taking Aleshe's essence like old Ren. I am me but some of her memories are mine.

Ashley congratulated me and said, "welcome back" which was symbolically touching. Just like old Ren, Aleshe is officially no longer separate from me, and is a permanent wholly owned asset of mine as if she was always my aspect.

>>3560
Ah, I thought this was long done? Welcome back too, this makes your system a little less confusing.

>>3579

>Bear system is confusing

All you need to know is, I'm the good cop, Ashley's the bad cop, Joy is the judge, Misha is the defense lawyer, Gwen is the softball prosecutor who secretly wants to lose her case, SheShe is Juror #1, and Bear is the recidivist defendant.

After an hour long discussion with Autumn this morning and a final exam of sorts, she has demonstrated to my satisfaction her new personality and her dedication to Bear and the rest of us. So we gave her a pass on the rest of the planned scenarios and have moved her to stage 3: trust.

Like a mother bird I have set her free and she is on her own now.

She passed her exam beautifully and wilfully and I now see her as a fully mature and symmetric member of our system.

Congratulations Autumn!

>>3843
Nice!
Not that I ever doubted it.

>tulpa.tribe.net
Never heard about it, sorry!
If there's nothing on the wayback machine you're probably out of luck.