luckthebard:

During a recent discussion with my brother about CritRole player styles, we came to the conclusion that while Sam and Taliesin are both rules-conscious players, Sam is a Rules Pessimist, but Taliesin is a Rules Optimist.

That’s why Sam always seems surprised by magic items with a lot of power, and frequently forgets that things like Nott’s Cloak of Elvenkind gives her advantage on all stealth checks (surely that can’t be the case!) His questions are always “I don’t get sneak attack, right?” or “I can’t do [the thing he wants to have Nott do] right?” I think this is linked to why he was disappointed he rolled an 8 for hit points after rolling a 1 and getting a re-roll from Matt. (”’Ah no, I rolled good for hitpoints!’ You’re so weird, Sam!”) He wants to play fair, but to an extreme degree where he nerfs himself.

Taliesin, on the other hand, is always questioning the boundaries of what he can do on the off chance it might work. He never has a problem with Matt saying something won’t work, but he always tries it (and he always has a back-up plan for the stuff that’s a real stretch, to not slow things down). He makes the rules and magic items work for him in sometimes unexpected ways, just by assuming there must be more he can get out of them. But this leads him to sometimes assume magic items or spells they have are more powerful than they are, which very occasionally presents a small problem (and more often is just funny).

Both of these approaches are valid, it’s just interesting to see them contrasted at the same table.

the-black-backed-gull:

asthebelltolls:

huffylemon:

One time, I had a dream that I was making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, and most of them were the regular measurements in cups and stuff. But at the end of the recipe, instead of saying “2.5 cups of chocolate chips” it said “627 chocolate chips.”

So when I woke up, I made some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And instead of measuring out chocolate chips, I counted them (and suffered a lot of odd looks from my family for it).

Well, it turns out that 627 chocolate chips is the amount that the recipe called for (2.5 cups). Not only that, but 627 was the exact amount of chocolate chips that we had left in the house.

Forbidden knowledge was granted you that night