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Post by ayslyn on Oct 12, 2015 17:16:47 GMT -8
Paraphrased, but close enough to a direct quote...
"D&D is a game about resource management and not role-playing."
Absolute, unmitigated bullshit.
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Benji
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Post by Benji on Oct 12, 2015 17:54:50 GMT -8
Paraphrased, but close enough to a direct quote... "D&D is a game about resource management and not role-playing." Absolute, unmitigated bullshit. Wait, what? What was that from? I missed something.
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 12, 2015 17:58:51 GMT -8
If I recall correctly it's from one of the mails.
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 12, 2015 18:00:22 GMT -8
To be fair, it's not the first time I have heard D&D described in this fashion. It's thinking about things that way that spawned the five minute work day.
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Post by ayslyn on Oct 12, 2015 19:37:38 GMT -8
It's still utter bullshit.
And yes, Benji, it was from one of the emails.
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Post by Stu Venable on Oct 12, 2015 19:50:15 GMT -8
When I'm recording the show, I have an audio out from my interface that includes the soundboard and the 4 mics in the studio as well as the music/announcer track. It doesn't include the audio IN from G+ Hangouts. This is called a mix minus. It's everything minus the audio G+ Hangouts sends me (which is the audio from anyone connecting remotely). This stops there from being a horrible time-delayed echo of people connecting remotely. This audio out goes in the audio input on a second computer that is running the hangout.(I also have a connector going from the audio out of the hangout computer to my audio interface so I can record the hangout audio on its own track.) Why 2 computers in the equation? ie: mic ----------- | |<---------------------| | | | soundboard -----|-----> mixing board --------> Computer <***> G+ | | | | \/ | mic ----------| monitor \/ Recording Aaron PS:diagram in the spirit of Old Skool 'puting (I remember when WORDPERFECT was King of the wordprocessors and there was thing called Lotus Notes) The recording software I use (Pro Tools) is very taxing. In the past, the computer would crash (or at least crash the recording software) when I was trying to do everything on one computer. Since I have two, I use two. It *is* possible to do on one, but it would need to be pretty fast.
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Post by HourEleven on Oct 12, 2015 20:00:14 GMT -8
Paraphrased, but close enough to a direct quote... "D&D is a game about resource management and not role-playing." Absolute, unmitigated bullshit. My favorite phrase that I've heard for belittling DnD was "Aggressive Book Keeping, 2nd Edition." At the end of the day, it's all just rules to hang your story on. A good GM can entertain and show his players a good time with any system.
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Post by ayslyn on Oct 12, 2015 20:03:32 GMT -8
The recording software I use (Pro Tools) is very taxing. In the past, the computer would crash (or at least crash the recording software) when I was trying to do everything on one computer. Since I have two, I use two. It *is* possible to do on one, but it would need to be pretty fast. A second hard drive might solve the problem as well. I know a number of the better videos from WoW would install the game on one hard drive, and record to a second to improve performance.
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Post by ayslyn on Oct 12, 2015 20:09:12 GMT -8
My favorite phrase that I've heard for belittling DnD was "Aggressive Book Keeping, 2nd Edition." At the end of the day, it's all just rules to hang your story on. A good GM can entertain and show his players a good time with any system. It's one way to play it, certainly. Personally, I don't see the need to belittle any game system. Even my scorn for the game that shell not be named is more directed at the stupidity and misogyny of the writer/designer. Now, I might give someone some good-natured guff over their freakish devotion to some hippy game... ^.- As for the second part, I can certainly agree with that. I've seen games of HERO that don't touch the dice, and I've seen people min-max the fuck out of Amber.
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Post by weaselcreature on Oct 13, 2015 7:13:05 GMT -8
Regarding gaming with kids who will be around: Some great advice was given. I'd also add "Be available to help, if it's something you can do." For this specific case, it will most likely be with the 3 yr old than the 1 yr old, but if your character isn't directly involved in what's happening and you can step in and help with her/his current query, go for it! Fill a bottle, make a "bread and peanut butter sandwich," etc...
Anecdotal case in point: my 4 year old is usually playing Disney Infinity while we game, and he prefers 2 players (he usually controls both, back and forth); I'm his normal gaming buddy, but if he gets stuck and/or wants someone to play with him, one of our players will step away from the table and go play for a bit.
Kids are brighter than they're usually given credit for; my son more-or-less understands that when I call the player back to the table, it's back to some solo gaming.
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Post by yeknom on Oct 13, 2015 7:41:33 GMT -8
Paraphrased, but close enough to a direct quote... "D&D is a game about resource management and not role-playing." Absolute, unmitigated bullshit. My opinion is that it works best when you don't ignore the resource management aspect. (i.e., "no, you do not get all your HP and spells back yet.") Whether or not it's about role-playing is up to all the players around the table. You can play a character or you can play a character sheet.
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Post by Stu Venable on Oct 13, 2015 7:44:59 GMT -8
The recording software I use (Pro Tools) is very taxing. In the past, the computer would crash (or at least crash the recording software) when I was trying to do everything on one computer. Since I have two, I use two. It *is* possible to do on one, but it would need to be pretty fast. A second hard drive might solve the problem as well. I know a number of the better videos from WoW would install the game on one hard drive, and record to a second to improve performance. Nope. I already use an external Firewire 800 drive for audio (that's a requirement for Pro Tools -- especially multi track). It's processing power. There are real-time effects going on in Pro Tools that eat up performance, and trying to add combining 4 cameras to one and stream it out is just too much. Maybe if I had a 10k Mac Pro....
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Post by ayslyn on Oct 13, 2015 8:32:00 GMT -8
Paraphrased, but close enough to a direct quote... "D&D is a game about resource management and not role-playing." Absolute, unmitigated bullshit. My opinion is that it works best when you don't ignore the resource management aspect. (i.e., "no, you do not get all your HP and spells back yet.") Whether or not it's about role-playing is up to all the players around the table. You can play a character or you can play a character sheet. *shrugs* If the resource management game works for you, then rock on. Do what makes it fun for you (generic you ^.^ ). Me, personally, I don't enjoy a lot of it, and toss some of them out the window. I've never tracked my player's encumbrance. I operate on the "Don't be an asshole" principle and have never been burned.
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Post by OFTHEHILLPEOPLE on Oct 13, 2015 10:23:29 GMT -8
When your players are spending the session doing inventory for their brand new tavern, which they decided to open instead of adventuring, you might have indulged the resource management aspect of the game a little too much.
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Post by ericfromnj on Oct 13, 2015 10:24:29 GMT -8
D&D does resource management rather well - if you play that way - but like most role playing games with the right people you can role play the shit out of that sauce, which is true of all role playing games in a way, so I have no clue why I am mentioning this. Never mind. Nothing to see here.
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