• domorik (unregistered)
    He was too busy trying to keep Cranky Cockatoos below the 1 MB limit.
    If you think that's hard, try keeping your game below 96KB.
  • sdjt (unregistered)

    I can't believe there's so many DD geeks out there....

    Personally I thought this was one of the worst articles in a long time....maybe because I doidn't get it for all the DandD references....

  • (cs) in reply to populus
    populus:
    Article:
    "Hah! That fireball hits all six kobolds! Burn!" Alanna whooped as she knocked over each of the little plastic figurines.

    A woman playing D&D? I call bullshit on this one!

    It is possible. For the new Total War game Creative Assembly released many DEV vids. Several of them with a female dev (quite beautiful) doing the talking.

  • (cs) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    Combat & Tactics, probably.
    Just checked, and it has two systems: a more complicated version of double damage, and full critical hit tables that do include decapitation, but not as simple as rolling a natural 20.
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    in 4th edition changed to automatic maximum damage.
    Never played (or even read) that, nor do I have a desire to :)
    Jochen:
    For the new Total War game Creative Assembly released many DEV vids. Several of them with a female dev (quite beautiful) doing the talking.
    Gee, I wonder why they took that decision …
  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Jochen
    Jochen:
    populus:
    Article:
    "Hah! That fireball hits all six kobolds! Burn!" Alanna whooped as she knocked over each of the little plastic figurines.

    A woman playing D&D? I call bullshit on this one!

    It is possible. For the new Total War game Creative Assembly released many DEV vids. Several of them with a female dev (quite beautiful) doing the talking.

    That always works. If you're going to create materials that are used for interaction with the public, prop a pretty girl in front of it. It always increases traffic. Because of this fact, there will never be equality of employment opportunity between men and women.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    Gurth:
    operagost:
    This was an optional rule mentioned in AD&D 2nd Ed.
    Not in the core rulebooks, to the best of my knowledge, but perhaps in one of the more obscure supplements (of which there were almost as many as for D&D3.x). The normal suggested optional rule is to roll for damage twice on a natural 20.

    Combat & Tactics, probably. 3.x had a house rule of the triple natural 20 = auto kill, but usually it was double damage (or triple and for a pick I believe x4 damage), which in 4th edition changed to automatic maximum damage.

    It is more than possible that rolling a natural 20 is not specfically indicative of actual "decapitation" as such. More than likely it just (with the particular weapon at the hands of this particular opponent, with the hit points standing at the levels they did) signalled defeat for the elf in question. The DM (as is encouraged in such circs) embellished the raw materials with some extra colour.

  • (cs)

    "Yes"

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    The DM (as is encouraged in such circs) embellished the raw materials with some extra colour.
    No, really? Tell me more!
  • CMShater (unregistered)

    Re: "looks like they somehow made a bad version of Flash inside Drupal." -- well at least it wasn't in Joomla, which is a real WTF itself...

  • EvilWizardBoss (unregistered) in reply to Valued Service
    Valued Service:
    QJo:
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    ceiswyn:
    populus:
    A woman playing D&D? I call bullshit on this one!

    Wow, you must have the world's most rubbish gaming group.

    My (and many other nerds I'm sure) fantasy is to play in an all girl gaming group as the only male. Giggity.

    That'd work.

    "Right, let's smash this door down and get the treasure!"

    "Hmph. You can, we'll chip our nail-varnish!"

    "Nah. We're off to the kitchen to see if there's any cake.

    "Ooh look - an orc! Mmm, scrummy! He's more of a man than you'll ever be, right girls?"

    Stop scaring the chicks off:
    populus:
    Article:
    "Hah! That fireball hits all six kobolds! Burn!" Alanna whooped as she knocked over each of the little plastic figurines.

    A woman playing D&D? I call bullshit on this one!

    Presumably you prefer a sausage fest, eh?

    You're the guy spoiling everything for the rest of us aren't you, you misogynist bastard.

    Both of you seem to be people who only relate to artificial stereotypes in movies. My, what facebook has done to people.

    For the first quote. The OP means that it's rare to have a girl in the group, not that he doesn't want a girl in the group.

    For the second quote. Not all girls are that cheap. None of those girls know what a real man is, and will probably marry future drunks.

    MA WHOOO HA HA HAAAAA!!!! My evil spell of of bickering over nonsense I cast you you is working exactly according to my plan!

  • Andy (unregistered) in reply to populus

    Don't do that.

  • FooBarBazQuux (unregistered)

    Bravo!! I found this tale to be well-written and very entertaining.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered)

    I haven't played D&D but I thought I'd seen the dice it uses.

    What's the difference between a 20 and a natural 20?

    Is an unnatural 20 something you can get by rolling a 12 sider?

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered)
  • wandering GM (unregistered) in reply to populus

    seen it, if you don't believe me, hit up origins game expo or gencon, now if it was 40k that's hard to refute

  • Eric (unregistered)

    "Eric" here, clarifying a few points:

    • This happened in a Right To Work state, where it's "Work this excessive unpaid overtime, or we will legally fire you on the spot."
    • I needed a job, any job, when I was hired. A point commonly ignored by "Why didn't he quit immediately?" commenters: those pesky things like rent, food, and transportation expenses necessitate keeping a job, even a terrible one. I couldn't quit until I had a job lined up somewhere else, and the instant I did, I submitted my notice.
    • The CTO will quite naturally outsource the company's core competency when he is also the chairman of the board at the consulting company. It's basically embezzlement, except (questionably) legal.
    • Flash comes with its own "IDE" for AS2. It's about on par with a text-editor that has syntax highlighting. It's also worth noting that while AS3 has Exceptions, AS2's response to anything it doesn't like is to return 'undefined', which is a lot like null, except that it turns anything else it touches into 'undefined'.
    • That poor, lonely, "Yes" checkbox. I never found out what it was for, only that the consultants put it there "because the CTO wanted it". To this day, though the answer could only be Yes, I still search for the question.
  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Norman Diamond
    Norman Diamond:
    I haven't played D&D but I thought I'd seen the dice it uses.

    What's the difference between a 20 and a natural 20?

    Is an unnatural 20 something you can get by rolling a 12 sider?

    When you roll dice, in certain circumstances you can amend the roll by adding / subtracting modifiers. For example, when you wield a "plus one magic sword" you get to add 1 to the score you roll on the die (or dice).

    A "natural 20" is a 20 rolled on an icosahedral die. A non-natural 20 (not sure what its name is) is a 20 obtained after having added any modifiers to whatever you rolled. So, rolling 19 or 20 with a +1 magic sword will give you 20 or over -- but certain effects are (according to the game mechanics) triggered only when you achieve that 20 by rolling it directly, no matter how vorpal your blade.

  • John (unregistered)

    The CTO sounded like a cunning linguist.

  • Delta (unregistered) in reply to populus
    populus:
    Article:
    "Hah! That fireball hits all six kobolds! Burn!" Alanna whooped as she knocked over each of the little plastic figurines.

    A woman playing D&D? I call bullshit on this one!

    So I guess you guys don't know about the "Playing D&D With Porn Stars" blog or "I Hit It With My Axe" videos?

  • Sir Galahad the Pure (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    Norman Diamond:
    I haven't played D&D but I thought I'd seen the dice it uses.

    What's the difference between a 20 and a natural 20?

    Is an unnatural 20 something you can get by rolling a 12 sider?

    When you roll dice, in certain circumstances you can amend the roll by adding / subtracting modifiers. For example, when you wield a "plus one magic sword" you get to add 1 to the score you roll on the die (or dice).

    A "natural 20" is a 20 rolled on an icosahedral die. A non-natural 20 (not sure what its name is) is a 20 obtained after having added any modifiers to whatever you rolled. So, rolling 19 or 20 with a +1 magic sword will give you 20 or over -- but certain effects are (according to the game mechanics) triggered only when you achieve that 20 by rolling it directly, no matter how vorpal your blade.

    I was going to make that example. With a +5 longbow, which would have been extremely more awesomer.

  • Mandalf the Manly (unregistered)

    First of all...

    kobols are ~2-3ft tall, elves are ~5ft typically. If the elf was leaning over and the kobold was using a sword two handed it's possible to get a neck shot.

    As for the nat 20, house rules are house rules but that's pretty harsh. Then again if they're fighting kobolds at the same level as being able to use a fireball (i.e. 5th level wizard vs. level 1/2 kobolds) I would hope they've been beefed up to provide a challenge. Then again if they're smart they bought a fireball scroll but still, depending on the...wait wasn't there a technology issue here?

    What website am I on?

  • Eric (unregistered)

    Eric again - while most of the DnD-related content is embellishment (we did play it, 3rd edition with Pathfinder, to be specific), I feel obligated to chip in that a scroll of Fireball could be obtained for a mere 375gp, probably in the reach of a 2nd-level adventurer if they discovered they had nothing better to spend it on - as a low-level sorceror/wizard, who cannot wear armor or use anything bigger than a dagger, might find themselves after one or two piles of loot.

    As a 3rd-level spell, it would have a caster level of at least 5, and 5d6 is plenty to obliterate an entire group of kobolds, particularly if they botched their reflex saves. A 20' radius could easily catch six of them. You'd have to pass a caster level check, but it could certainly be done while kobolds are still threatening.

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