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2023/02/09 17:59:13
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
I don't trust most people who I can't see what they roll. I apply that to any board game. I'm not uncommon. Would you trust someone to "tell" you what they rolled in a game of 40k?
As for the AI DM, I can see it getting cheesed and griefed so hard in the first month that they have to take it off line. Reminds me of the AI they put in the sex doll in Japan. It became depressed after all the threats and violence it encountered. They had to take it off line.
The AI DM is apparently in tiers? So you get a super basic AI for basic level, which I assume is like a Choose your own adventure, DM Railroads, thats it. Maybe some added voices.
The highest tier DM will react with feigned emotion, like Anger at finding a sneaking character or Shock and revulsion at finding a Necromantic Wizard, for instance. No real proof yet, just claims in concept.
In any event, I'll laugh at the troll videos that pop up on YT and Trovo the week after launch, where they literally cause the DM to ALT-F4.
2023/02/09 18:40:20
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
FezzikDaBullgryn wrote: I don't trust most people who I can't see what they roll. I apply that to any board game. I'm not uncommon. Would you trust someone to "tell" you what they rolled in a game of 40k?
Obviously. I'm not going to micromanage or do spot inspections of dice rolling on the other side of the table.
That sounds just unpleasant for everybody, whether its boardgames, rpgs or wargames. And also just exhausting and unfun.
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2023/02/09 20:22:42
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
FezzikDaBullgryn wrote: Would you trust someone to "tell" you what they rolled in a game of 40k?
Yes, I do it all the time. They roll their dice on their side of the table and tell me the results, I don't bother leaning over to carefully watch and count each die. Who has time for that nonsense outside of a competitive tournament? And I regularly play D&D over voice chat without offline dice.
As for the AI DM, I can see it getting cheesed and griefed so hard in the first month that they have to take it off line.
Potentially, if they're dumb enough to have a single shared instance of it. If they do the obvious thing and have a separate instance for each user all trolling it would do is make your own experience worse.
2023/02/09 21:30:50
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
If I'm friends with someone and they're not just a FLGS stranger or even aquaintance, I trust them to roll and tell me until they do something that causes me to doubt them (like incidentally catching sight of a roll and then having them read something else back to me). If they do that even just once, I ask for them to roll where I can see it from then on. If a stranger or someone I barely know is caught cheating, I simply don't play them again. There was someone who frequented my old FLGS for D&D minis that was notorious for that (as well as swindling kids out of valuable Pokemon cards in very one sided trades).
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2023/02/10 11:27:04
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
At great risk of derailing this thread into sharing your stories of D&D, I had a really cracking session last night!
Starting up a campaign in the feywild based on legends, fairytales, and classic literature. Missed the first session due to scheduling so joining in on session 2. The brief for the characters was to put a spin on a fairytale, nursery rhyme or classic literature character. The party is currently consisting of:
Merlin, as an old man wizard with an owl familiar.
Mad Madame Mim, as a druid.
Big Bad Wolf, as a druid/barbarian
Zorro, as a literal fox (apparently Zorro is spanish for fox)
Sherlock & watson as a split personality character
and me, as Pin (occhio), Gunslinger and bounty hunter warlock.
The session started with introductions, with my character chasing the bounty on Zorro and Mim (my IRL fiancee, also just joining) trying to sneak into the castle. The party was in a sewer, and so we fought a group of giant spiders. Pin then showed the group their bounty posters, and then asked if they wanted to team up to pay them off, as the DM had said they had run in with Miss Muffet, and I asked if she had a bounty as a good cause for alliance, and she said yes, so that was the in we needed. Mim was mainly preoccupied with one-upping Merlin, and we pushed to the entrance to the castle of King Charming's dungeon. Pin intimidated 3 guards into locking themselves in a cell, and then would have intimidated 2 more but for held actions from the rest of the party which killed them! Then we broke into the magical vault by loading everyone into a bag of holding and me casting Blink to move 10ft. through the door, which took 5 full turns before I rolled high enough for it to work! There we managed to grab a map to the greatest treasure in the world, and just escaped on the last roll of Blink. We made our escape to the Sewer, and Miss Muffet smashed through the wall, causing Mim to cast Pass Without Trace and we all snuck out of the front door instead whilst she fought the guards!
We escaped on a wagon which was all ready to go, narrowly avoiding Tortle and Hare, a bounty-hunting duo. Now we're on the run from King Charming, and Miss Muffet (who wanted the map), and on our way to a forest where the treasure is supposedly waiting for us! We also leveled up to level 6, so now I am at +11 on my ranged attack (fighter, archery style, on top of an enhanced pact weapon hexblade warlock with a heavy crossbow (reflavoured into a rifle called Jiminy Cricket), with Ch 20!).
Looking forward to next session!
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some bloke wrote: At great risk of derailing this thread into sharing your stories of D&D, I had a really cracking session last night!
Starting up a campaign in the feywild based on legends, fairytales, and classic literature. Missed the first session due to scheduling so joining in on session 2. The brief for the characters was to put a spin on a fairytale, nursery rhyme or classic literature character.
It's not derailing and we could use some positivity after the OGL debacle and the even more recent attempt at damage control by the OGL WOTC exec poorly chosen words stating white men can't leave dnd fast enough for his tastes.
If you're having fun then that's what is most important. The only thing I'd watch out for potentially long term is the novelty of fairytale and literary characters wearing thin. There is some long-lasting allure to a character that you craft and develop yourself over time that may be missing. I've never tried it myself though so I'm just guessing though.
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2023/02/12 15:53:42
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
skyth wrote: It was white executives, not talking about the players.
Yeah. I watched the whole podcast video. It's about getting diversity on the team developing the game so that more voices are heard in making it.
The question he was answering was about diversity at the top of the company. As a mid level manager and loyal corporate toady towing the company line throughout the interview, he's not going to throw his bosses under a bus so he tailored his answer to his team and sandwiched the comment in question after a quip about white guys in basements and his team. Not executives but people either lateral or below him. And, just for the record, I agree with his earlier statements about expanding the diversity of both the fanbase and the creative teams.
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2023/02/15 10:11:33
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
Oh my Black Jesus, can we stop parading this idiot around as some "smoking gun"? He's an idiot. He said idiot things. Besides, we all know that WoTC has been trying desperately to appeal to the left side for years.
First was Tashas, then the whole Diversity statement.
Isn't this guy the same one who made the whole Roll20 debacle with "We don't want anymore white male Influencers promiting our product?"
Point is, DnD has become what it has become, and now you have an exceptionally vocal and not especially well thought out portion of the player base, demanding crap like this. Fine. But this is not DnD, this is just a new player base being appealed to. This is WotC making a business gamble, again, badly.
2023/02/15 12:09:15
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
Not possible under current rules me thinks. I'd incorporate some form of damage to the snakes. Enough to break the wild shape.
Why not just turn into a literal bird with unlimited fly speed? I'm kinda glad they are nerfing drood forms in One. Gets a little silly suddenly creating 8 new initiatives every time the druid wild shapes into a pack of wolves.
2023/03/28 19:15:59
Subject: Re:Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
The future of D&D. Be warned though that it is chock full of cringe and has the authenticity and spontaneity of a 2am infomercial for a Golden Oldies CD collection.
The preview of 6e online gameplay begins about 15 minutes in. Also, I'll never be able to read a Drizzt novel without mentally given him a Boston accent now.
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2023/03/28 21:15:26
Subject: Dungeons And Dakkas! The Dakka DnD Thread!
OMG Wulfgaaah! These Drow are friggin Hosers dood! Lets go back to the camp so I can creep on yer daaghtah while playing some wikked Dave Matthews!
At least now we have a canon pronounciation of Drizzt. But yeah, that whole thing was so incredibly cringe. It was like one of those "Don't do drugs" videos that adults made us watch in HS, where a group of actors pretending to be adults tried to be "relateable"