The Obliging Wench Tavern - OOC Chat

[IsabellaRose]

Yeah, it seemed unclear to me as well. I wonder how fully tested the system is. Although, to be fair, I've seen a lot of rulebooks where the rules are just all over the book and the answers are eventually in there, somewhere.

You could try finding a PDF of the rules (I think there's a free online version) and feed it into Google's NotebookLM. It's a pretty handy tool that will parse the PDF and then answer questions about it for you. Sort of an AI for only that one source. I've found it handy to feed it rulebooks and then ask clarifying questions about the rules, or use it as a reference when I have a game at the table and we're uncertain of how something works. It will give you page references so you can read the passage yourself.

[Rob4ix]

Yeah i think i did it some time with chatGPT, but this variant came to me just now, also about where to get a book, there is anyflip for released and published version, itch and official website for free version/creative commons version.

[IsabellaRose]

I usually buy most of my games in both print and PDF. I'm a weirdo bibliophile, so I have to have a print copy if possible, but I rarely use them in play. I play on so many screens that the PDF is a must for me. But yeah, NotebookLM is really good for rulebooks.

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

Hello I was looking through this and was wondering if I could possibly join in on this epic adventure?

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

We don't exactly have an adventure going yet but I'm sure it'd be alright!

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

@AsBloodTurnsEverColdthanks I look forward to it! So I read through the lore and everything, and I think my OC dewdrop would be perfect for this. I was thinking maybe Sheylin but I don’t know where I could put her, it seems everyone wants be either A: medically oriented, or 2: science oriented. No mixing which is what my half goblin is all about

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Well who knows whats gonna happen here but I'm sure that'd be fine or could at least be talked about. I was wanting to make a Kung-fu Druid myself.

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

Haha that’s what my OC dewdrop is kinda, she is a slimenoid who shapeshifts into different forms of goo and beats people into submission with feral/ martial abilities. She not really do king fu, it’s more along the lines of brawling then anything but it’s fine to rp it.

and the sex scenes with her are just so fun because I just do whatever the fuck comes to mind.

Kissing someone but wants to also lick his nipple? Grows another mouth on her torso. She getting rail on all fours but wants to kiss and hug on the person as well? Bam instant slime-taur!

its super fun playing!

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Sounds super interesting! I was mostly going for a sorta wild monkey king inspired thing at the time cause I found a picture I really wanna use.

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

Oh can I see! And that sounds awesome as well!

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Would have been this. Really good stuff to play with lol

Nothing as creative as what you are wanting to do admittedly.

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

Haha maybe so but to each their own, beside dewdrop is an OC I have been working on for a long time!

this is an AI generated photo that I made. It is the first time I got a photo from one of those things to come out almost exactly like I wanted it to! There is only few things that wasn’t in my description but I am fine with that. As far as I am concerned the only way I could have gotten a better pic for her is by paying someone 

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Yeah, me myself I mostly don't use AI but hopefully if I keep working at it myself I can just draw stuff myself!

Looks cool though

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

I just mess around with them, I am not trying to make myself an “artist” 

I actually dislike them to a certain extent, it can never replace real artists but it’s a nice tool to have

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Yeah it'll get people close to what they want sometimes

[IsabellaRose]

Sometimes close is all I want for a quick character or npc pic. If I could wait and afford as much as I want, I'd pay to have everyone commissioned, but the way I run a game is often very improv. The dice determine there's an NPC, and then I like to have a pic for them, so a quick hit AI image and we're off and running. It's been great for that, but yeah... it just can't replace real art. And I wouldn't want it to. We need AI to do more washing dishes, cleaning things, and menial labor so people can be free to make more art, not the other way around.

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

It'd be great to have it handling the boring stuff but instead we've put it on the fun duty!
Can't replace real artists though for sure. Its always nice to commission and get something that makes those dreams come true or find something, but ya make do and for small stuff and non-monetary work I think its alright.

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

24 minutes ago, IsabellaRose said:

Sometimes close is all I want for a quick character or npc pic. If I could wait and afford as much as I want, I'd pay to have everyone commissioned, but the way I run a game is often very improv. The dice determine there's an NPC, and then I like to have a pic for them, so a quick hit AI image and we're off and running. It's been great for that, but yeah... it just can't replace real art. And I wouldn't want it to. We need AI to do more washing dishes, cleaning things, and menial labor so people can be free to make more art, not the other way around.

I agree! And normally I do that as close as possible it for dewdrop it was very hard because she looks like a mannequin, it was extremely hard to find anything close to it. And then that picture out of no where was just perfect 

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

So who is the DM so I can get my character squared away for when ever we do, do an adventure 

[IsabellaRose]

The last thing I knew, @Ceberskie was going to run a game using Cortex Prime instead of D&D. 

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

Oof he hasn’t been on since August, is he coming back?

[IsabellaRose]

I don't know.

I might have begun the shift into another system because I'm just done with D&D and said so, but I really thought it was just me. Ceberskie seemed to like Cortex (my personal favorite system) and ran with it.

I honestly made my "done with 5e" announcement expecting to just bow out of the game all together.

 

IGNORE THIS , I started writing a rant and left it here but it's irrelevant to the discussion at this point:

_{5e mechanics don't really jibe with sexy time to me, especially when another system can mechanically support increasing horniness levels, "sexual" combat where you can mechanically try to get your partner to orgasm first, or any number of fun mechanics that add to the game, instead of trying to jam sexy fun into a game that's basically a combat engine with roleplay elements strapped on.}

 

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Yeah who knows? Could just be super busy but we're in limbo atm

[SheylinHalfGoblin]

lol why don’t we try pink carbon or vice and violence?

[roll to seduce]

I could never really get into Vice and Violence. I think the images got me too distracted from reading the actual rules.

I might be interested in running something. Though I often find systems like dnd or pathfinder a bit cumbersome and hard to add lewd elements. 

I have some ideas for systems that could be fun. 

Simplest is probably Freeform Universal. No stats, only descriptors and conditions that improve your odds. Really open ended dice mechanic.

Cairn/Mausritter, more traditional, easy to reflavor willpower as a resist arousal stat.

Whitehack is really flexible. We'd probably have to add a willpower resource to it, though the corruption system could be fun.

Fabula Ultima is probably too heavy. I just like the anime/jrpg vibes, the group approach to world building and so on. Mind point would then serve as resistance to horny. And we'd probably add a system for armor damage.

Lastly I have to mention microscope. It's probably not great for PBP, and it's not really that gamey as it's diceless. But really like the idea collaborative and structure worldbuilding.

If I GM it might be a bit of a slow game cause might not have a lot of extra time to write. But I'm willing to try something.