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Wajeb Deb Kaadeb
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LOL. There are men at my office who know no difference. 30 year old men who have never not had a phone in their adult years, first with a blackberry or similar phone, then with the smartphones over the last decade.
They look at my flip phone (it's a slide phone with a full keyboard) in wonder and pity.
I laugh. |
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Bren
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to have a flip phone and I found it profoundly disappointing. Not once did the phrase "Scotty, beam me up" garner a helpful response. |
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Wajeb Deb Kaadeb
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| Bren wrote: | | I used to have a flip phone and I found it profoundly disappointing. Not once did the phrase "Scotty, beam me up" garner a helpful response. |
You probably had the Klingon version.
Torrrrr---chu! |
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CRMcNeill
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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To randomly generate a dice result with a flip phone:1). Throw it against the wall as hard as you can.
2). Repeat as needed until phone breaks.
3). Number of throws = randomly generated dice roll.
4). Go buy a smart phone.
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Dredwulf60
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I don't usually do pre-rolls, but I did it a fair bit in an old campaign that focused on swoop racing.
The larger races, with a lot of NPC competitors, I found it easier to make all the NPC rolls ahead of time, so I knew where everyone would be round by round, right down to the winning placements.
Then at game time, the PCs were the only random element. Went much quicker/ fast paced. |
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Bren
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| Dredwulf60 wrote: | I don't usually do pre-rolls, but I did it a fair bit in an old campaign that focused on swoop racing.
The larger races, with a lot of NPC competitors, I found it easier to make all the NPC rolls ahead of time, so I knew where everyone would be round by round, right down to the winning placements.
Then at game time, the PCs were the only random element. Went much quicker/ fast paced. |
Exactly. Whether it is a swoop race or a space battle the players don't want to watch me roll a bunch of dice for each of the NPCs, but as a GM I like figuring out how the NPCs perform based on stats and rolls rather than some whim or notion of my own. So pre-rolling makes lots of sense for these sorts of situations. |
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garhkal
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It also makes sense to do so for certain other things.. Like say you are having a competition the PC's are entering.. 5 npcs also are running.. IT has say 3 running rolls, 2 climbing rolls, 2 jumping rolls, 2 acrobatic rolls, and 3 swimming rolls for every participant..
It makes SENSE to have those rolls done ahead of time for the NPCs, and you can then just compare #s with what the PC(s) roll IN GAME, to see "who's out in front"..
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MrNexx
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I find that when I do pre-rolls, I tend to ignore them. 
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