Honorguard Ra
(Verified Lizard Dude)
Oh God. People need to just start calling her Rita, without any context. Occasionally people laugh, but nobody tells her why.
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Kryslin
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@Jonn Wolfe : If you're an obsidian dragon, you will have a problem. Namely, Sardior. Obsidian dragons don't exist because their progenitor offended Sardior, and thus there are very few, if any, obsidian dragons about the multiverse.
However, in an AU where the first obsidian dragon didn't offend Sardior, then yes, he'd be the one in charge of them.
Vampire, being Repulse's assistant, would eventually tell her boss (after much giggling on her part), and then the laughter would stop. What happens after that depends on Repulse's personality. Which, from the little bits and bobs in the manga, wouldn't be happy about it, but wouldn't be likely to do anything about such a minor annoyance except maybe swat you with a broom... that has enough strength behind it to push the remains of her secondary turrets around. If she had Kirishima's personality, there'd be incoming fire. Yamato's personality would be the upset big sister response, Takao's personality would be to drop kick you into the bay. Haruna, I-400, and I-402 would probably analyze your behavior until such point you gnawed off an arm to escape.
However, in an AU where the first obsidian dragon didn't offend Sardior, then yes, he'd be the one in charge of them.
Vampire, being Repulse's assistant, would eventually tell her boss (after much giggling on her part), and then the laughter would stop. What happens after that depends on Repulse's personality. Which, from the little bits and bobs in the manga, wouldn't be happy about it, but wouldn't be likely to do anything about such a minor annoyance except maybe swat you with a broom... that has enough strength behind it to push the remains of her secondary turrets around. If she had Kirishima's personality, there'd be incoming fire. Yamato's personality would be the upset big sister response, Takao's personality would be to drop kick you into the bay. Haruna, I-400, and I-402 would probably analyze your behavior until such point you gnawed off an arm to escape.
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Um. I've lived in Louisiana. Where if you weren't in line by 5am, you might as well go home and get up earlier the next morning, because you weren't going to be seen.
Taking a few days off after going to the DMV? Makes perfect sense to me.
In my home town there are several places around town where you can go to get your licence/plates renewed (of course they also handle a bunch of other kinds of licences too), and it's still best if you get there early (and I usually bring a book to read while in line)
there's also this video
EDIT:L and then there was the Zootopia DMV
there's also this video
EDIT:L and then there was the Zootopia DMV
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I think I remember a story where somebody made a comment like that, and the response was basically "DMV is Limbo? I could see it" or something like that.
Dresden Files maybe? That seems like a Dresden thing to say.
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Never played 4e, but I occasionally yoink monster-rules from there for my 5e game. ^^ not much wakes the players up than having the boss monster pull off something not in the rulebooks.
As for 5e, there isn't any in-built penalties, but they have two optional rulesets that make dying repeatedly a scary process. One is that for each death, you earn a -permanent- failed death save. you get three resurrections (and die easier each time), and each time you need a higher type of spell to actually pull you back from the hearafter. Once you hit three resurrections, that's it, no more, you're done, you die a fourth time, and you're stuck there.
The other is that it takes a skill check on the part of the priest performing the resurrection and that if you screw that up, you might come back....different. How different? Just....different. Have fun RPing the demon possessing your ex-corpse! ^^
Different you say?
We had a guy in my group who had the most horrendous luck, he could not keep characters alive, and by that I mean like multiple a session being common. He wasn't especially suicidal or anything with the character the dice gods just seemed to have it out for him.
He died so often we had to start coming up with more and more ways to bring him back, from the ever classic "I'm here to avenge my twin brother" rename the character, to more and more outlandish resurrection magic. At one point we even slapped the Hell Bred template on him to bring him back. But there's also been lots of Reincarnation shenanigans. Druids get Reincarnate, and its often overlooked as a very low level resurrection option. But the best part is the chance at a new race that can get hilarious. At one point dude had the most stereotypical dwarf ever, including the casual racism agaisnt the 'sissy elves'. So naturally after he died he managed to randomly roll 'elf' on his reincarnate. There was much taunting after that, both IC and OOC. It was hilarious.
Jonn Wolfe
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Ye Flipping Gods! Get rid of the dice under a blood moon, a chicken dance around a fire pit, while chanting 'The Dice Are Dead' to dissuade lingering sh!t-tier luck. THEN go acquire several new sets.
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5e unless using True Resurrection, or them being dead for a short enough time that you use Revivify, has a -4 penalty for all rolls, going down by one per Long Rest.
FaerieKnight79
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Sure, by mid levels in 3.5 death can seem like a revolving door. But what many players forget is... this applies to their enemies too. I ran a campaign once where there was a band of kobolds and a goblin tribe that the party feared even at level 15. That particular group did not explore a dungeon completely. They didn't clear it of enemies, unlike many adventuring parties. As such they kept missing the clerics who could cast raise dead. The kobold band and goblin tribe each had a single member who could cast that spell. That member was elderly and thus would die in a few years (game time), but had an apprentice. Because the best warriors and magic users of those groups didn't stay dead, even the apprentice eventually got to a high enough level to cast Raise Dead. Think about how terrifying that must have been. Not just Kobolds and goblins, but trap happy Kobolds and goblins who have class levels and are roughly the same level as you.
Just to be clear? I wasn't joking. I recall an article in the paper about someone who showed up at 3 AM and the line was too long for them to be seen that day.
Obviously, that was an outlier, because it was newsworthy.
Horrifyingly, that's what it took to be newsworthy.
Yeah, no. When the dice hate you that much, that's not gonna help.
You're going to need multiple virginity sacrifices to clear that up. Unfortunately, if your gaming group was anything like mine, finding virgins is going to be a problem. Fortunately, if your gaming group was anything like mine, finding virginities to sacrifice might not be that hard, unless it's the second time around.
FaerieKnight79
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Some people, for whatever reason, have statistically unlikely luck. Either good or bad, but it's statistically unlikely. I've known people who can roll 16-18 using 3d6 almost every time with any dice handed to them. They can do so using dice towers, shaking the dice in their hand, using a cup, it doesn't matter. I've known people who rarely roll less then 17 on a D20, regardless of how it's rolled or what die they use. I've known people who almost always roll a 5 or less on a d20 too, regardless of how they roll or what die they use. Digital dice roller, dice tower, cup, rolled by hand, it doesn't matter. They can use any of their dice, any freshly bought die, or one handed to them by a 3rd party... it doesn't matter. They roll a 5 or less the majority of the time, with their high rolls being a 10. One guy has never once rolled anything higher then a 10, with 90% of his d20 rolls being a 5 or less. I know, we spent months tracking his dice rolls out of curiosity.
Some people will swear that you can "train" dice to roll high. I myself have noticed a trend where if anyone other then myself rolls one of my dice, it rolls low for the next 10 gaming sessions. Why? There's no logical reason, it just happens. I roll pretty average. I rarely roll nat 20's or natural 1's, but then again my dice rolls are pretty statistically average overall. Unless someone else uses my dice, in which case they roll low the next several sessions. Similarly, if I have to borrow someone else's dice... the borrowed dice tend to roll high for me. They then roll low for a few sessions for the owner. A statistician in my Pathfinder Society lodge is absolutely fascinated by this. He can't explain it, but it fascinates him.
Some people will swear that you can "train" dice to roll high. I myself have noticed a trend where if anyone other then myself rolls one of my dice, it rolls low for the next 10 gaming sessions. Why? There's no logical reason, it just happens. I roll pretty average. I rarely roll nat 20's or natural 1's, but then again my dice rolls are pretty statistically average overall. Unless someone else uses my dice, in which case they roll low the next several sessions. Similarly, if I have to borrow someone else's dice... the borrowed dice tend to roll high for me. They then roll low for a few sessions for the owner. A statistician in my Pathfinder Society lodge is absolutely fascinated by this. He can't explain it, but it fascinates him.
Don't touch my dice.
They are my dice.
They like me.
They don't like you.
I also have a friend who takes interest (and grim amusement) at my improbably bad luck when it comes to game RNG's. He's not an outright statistician like your friend, but he's got enough math to stand back in awe and horror.
The kind of theories, habits, hell rituals table top gamers have for our dice. We're an odd lot.
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Statistically speaking, the average value compared to the possible range of every die everyone ever rolls should be a rough bell curve. There will be people who are outliers. These people still don't have any better future odds than anybody else. But pattern recognition may make it seem likely.
Yea my favorite way to explain to people about things that seem bullshit is pretty straight forward.
One in a million chances suddenly don't look so bad when you remember there's 7 billion of us.
Combine that with the lottery example.
The odds of somebody winning the lottery is pretty good. The odds you win the lottery is not.
So while spectacularly bad luck is improbable, there's enough of us kicking around that's its bound to happen to somebody. We're just always surprised when the somebody happens to be us.
One in a million chances suddenly don't look so bad when you remember there's 7 billion of us.
Combine that with the lottery example.
The odds of somebody winning the lottery is pretty good. The odds you win the lottery is not.
So while spectacularly bad luck is improbable, there's enough of us kicking around that's its bound to happen to somebody. We're just always surprised when the somebody happens to be us.
For example there is the Wheaton Dice Curse, Will Wheaton constantly rolls very poorly.
I myself tend to roll fairly poorly (though not as bad as Wheaton) with my dice loving to roll juuuust badly enough to miss the target number I need.
And I have a friend who tends to roll fairly good, one day we switched dice, and had no real effect on either of our rolling.
Yea, a friend of mine actually dug up a bar graph of his rolls. It's not remotely looking like a proper bell curve, and there's enough rolls in the sample to make that really impressive.
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One of my gaming group is some sort of dice god... as long as it's physical dice. If he can roll it, it will consistently be good rolls, regardless of dice or system. If it's an online roller, he's merely average. Another rolls high, all the time. This is good for DnD, not so much for Dark Heresy, where's he is the only one who's died, and he's died eight times now. It has come back to bite us, though, since he's started DMing a DnD campaign and he crits multiple times per fight, and usually only against one player.
Ohh that reminds me.
My DM has what we call the PK dice.
They roll crazy high, but only when he's DM. When we rotate out and somebody else runs a game, so that he's a PC, the dice are unremarkable.
He doesn't use a screen, so we know he's not lying to us. He legit owns a set of Player Killer dice.
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There's also the emerging Matthew Mercer Player Dice phenomenon as well.
Kryslin
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True, it has nothing to do with the story, but it does explain why I've never won the lottery.
(Get's back to chores before I have to deal with a dragon girl whose taken up residence in my 3D software... No, not Naurelin (still waiting on reference art for that). This one swears like a sailor in the morning. "Good Morning, m@#$!#@!$?*!s!")
*chuckles, knowing exactly what the OP is talking about*
That sounds potentially amusing. Will she be visiting us here in Canon land? And is she, or is she related to Squealer?
Kryslin
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One of my many hobbies is that of 3D CGI - I'm competent, but not good enough to hold a job in a very cut throat field (both employers and employees). I rendered my avatar image, and did most of the technical work (rigging, fur/hair, lighting and rendering) I can model, though I'm much better at non-organic things; I have a fairly realistic kitchen set that looks like a product display.
Said dragongirl is former Hololive virtual Youtube host Kiryu Coco, who ran a morning live stream event, where she'd usually start off with the aforementioned greeting. I managed to snag a MMD (Miku Miku Dance, a neat little Real Time 3D Animation package) model of Coco, and have been making steady progress towards converting the model over to my 3D software of choice (Lightwave 3D).
I have been slowly overcoming many technical hurdles in the process (still have a few more to jump, mainly related to rigging the model for Lightwave, and materials issues - the MMD model has 51 materials defined, I can get it down to 17-20.)
Kiryu Coco and a travelling companion may make a Sidestory appearance during the in-story summer. Which will probably occur in the depths of winter here in the central US...