Ningyou posted:

do you like:

COOL PPL AND/OR MONTHS NAMED JANE
shitposting
grimes
a glut of references to beloved anime "dune"
more shitposting
weird godless robosexuals
brave moral stances against proper grammar or w/e nerd poo poo like that
grimes' clone, "doppelgrimes"
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lumberjanes

if so this is the thread for you if not sorry come back in july i guess

Ningyou posted:

weird godless robosexuals

Meinberg posted:

Can I have weird sexless robogods instead?

Ningyou posted:

wellllll YOU can have boring sexless robokendolls pursuing boring robofuckboy apotheosis but my robowhatever will be inclusive of scarydommey lesbian cyberqueens or it will be bullshit

Davin Valkri posted:

Hey, don't be a shamer. Obviously the great titanic art of Socialist Realism along the lines of the first tractor is what turns Meinberg on. Dazdraperrob! Hail the first robot!

_{Seriously though give me some loving robo-bishonen cyberqueen villains go all the way back to loving Metropolis}

Ningyou posted:

grimes

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Down With People posted:

Effectronica posted:

Well, since this is apparently the thread for stupid poo poo, I decided on a lark to take a look at the number of possible 1st-level human fighters in 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons (chosen because it was somewhat closer than my 4e book). Overall, it works out to 125 trillion possible ones using non-weapon proficiencies, but only in-class ones, and ignoring things that have zero game-mechanical effect. Reducing this to fighters that get bonus XP from having high STR only drops us to 120 trillion. Much of this comes from extraordinary STR and from weapon proficiencies. Reducing extraordinary STR to the five meaningful categories drops us down by half to 60 trillion, 58 counting only ones that get bonus XP. Cutting out NWPs, we have 8.5 billion characters, 7.8 billion of which get bonus XP. Cutting out weapon proficiencies drops us down to 15,200/14,080.

So how about leveling up? Well, for NWPs, this will vary based on the initial choices. I will do the simple case and deal with the 8.5 billion characters that picked Weaponsmithing as their NWP choice, and cut out variation in gold and items and so on. Leveling up under these conditions generates 31.4 billion possibilities, or 2.7 sextillion possible characters. At this point, I will drop NWPs entirely.

So under that constraint, there are 36 quadrillion possible level 2 fighters, 114 sextillion possible level 3 fighters, 262 octillion possible level 4 fighters...

So let's figure out where the combinatorial increase dies. It turns out to be level 15 (with two remaining that are taken at level 16), while the fighter's last hit die is gained at level 9. A little estimation tells us this will be at a minimum on the order of 10^80 total possible characters, beyond the common names for large numbers and on a similar order to the number of atoms in the universe.

But if we cut out weapon proficiencies, we end up with a simple order of magnitude increase. There are only 15 million possible level 4 fighters in that case, and 15 trillion total possible fighters.

Many of these are bizarre, or unworkable, of course, and this is neglecting other combinatorial factors that would increase matters still further.

Effectronica posted:

I decided on a lark to take a look at the number of possible 1st-level human fighters in 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons (chosen because it was somewhat closer than my 4e book).

Meinberg posted:

Grognards.txt is over here.

Effectronica posted:

If you don't want people to interrupt your cybersex orgy, just report and move on.

Effectronica posted:

If you don't want people to interrupt your cybersex orgy, just report and move on.

fosborb posted:

Ultra Business Tycoon III is one of the best games I have ever played.

Gonna infuse my next Gamma World campaign with gendered slime palaces.

fosborb posted:

gently caress it. My next Gamma World campaign is just going to BE the plot of Ultra Business Tycoon III.

Effectronica posted:

Well, since this is apparently the thread for stupid poo poo, I decided on a lark to take a look at the number of possible 1st-level human fighters in 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons (chosen because it was somewhat closer than my 4e book). Overall, it works out to 125 trillion possible ones using non-weapon proficiencies, but only in-class ones, and ignoring things that have zero game-mechanical effect. Reducing this to fighters that get bonus XP from having high STR only drops us to 120 trillion. Much of this comes from extraordinary STR and from weapon proficiencies. Reducing extraordinary STR to the five meaningful categories drops us down by half to 60 trillion, 58 counting only ones that get bonus XP. Cutting out NWPs, we have 8.5 billion characters, 7.8 billion of which get bonus XP. Cutting out weapon proficiencies drops us down to 15,200/14,080.

So how about leveling up? Well, for NWPs, this will vary based on the initial choices. I will do the simple case and deal with the 8.5 billion characters that picked Weaponsmithing as their NWP choice, and cut out variation in gold and items and so on. Leveling up under these conditions generates 31.4 billion possibilities, or 2.7 sextillion possible characters. At this point, I will drop NWPs entirely.

So under that constraint, there are 36 quadrillion possible level 2 fighters, 114 sextillion possible level 3 fighters, 262 octillion possible level 4 fighters...

So let's figure out where the combinatorial increase dies. It turns out to be level 15 (with two remaining that are taken at level 16), while the fighter's last hit die is gained at level 9. A little estimation tells us this will be at a minimum on the order of 10^80 total possible characters, beyond the common names for large numbers and on a similar order to the number of atoms in the universe.

But if we cut out weapon proficiencies, we end up with a simple order of magnitude increase. There are only 15 million possible level 4 fighters in that case, and 15 trillion total possible fighters.

Many of these are bizarre, or unworkable, of course, and this is neglecting other combinatorial factors that would increase matters still further.

Queen Fiona posted:

You do so know how to make a girl feel wanted.

<sub>Also, I thought I was already making RPGs based on the aesthetic of CHVRCHES. Either that, or I failed miserably.

also uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh porpentine</sub>

Spiderfist Island posted:

What happens if you use the 2E Dark Sun Revised Strength table that gets rid of Exceptional Strength altogether? That probably makes things a little less insane in terms of the initial ability score permutations. Did you include random HP rolls?

Effectronica posted:

Random HP is in there, yeah. It provides a nice steady increase of an order of magnitude per level.

Exceptional Strength doesn't matter all that much- using all the possibilities gives us a total of 189 permissible combinations, using only the five meaningful categories gives us 94 combinations, dropping it entirely gives us 89 combinations. There are interestingly only 56 possible combinations that don't qualify for any class.

The real explosion comes in from proficiencies, although if we ignore the order in which they were gained, we come back down to the case where there are no proficiencies at max level, which is actually 1.5 trillion possible fighters at level 16.

Ningyou posted:

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm excu$e me it's called "cool grammar for cool ppl"

Davin Valkri posted:

I'm sorry, you don't mean "c001 gr@mm@r f0r c001 pp1"?

...that hurt to write.

Captain Walker posted:

Resolve an argument, chat thread: I'm the fighter in an IRL 5e game, the party's only front liner since the barbarian died to kobolds in the first fight. Would I be having more fun if I wasn't consistently rolling lovely and hadn't dropped in every session so far? Our cleric feels similarly limited and it seems like everyone else doesn't care.