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Nov 11, 2012 -- 8:45PM, NickTyrong wrote:

Dude, seriously? I just explained what happened. Yes, according to the rules they should have stayed on. Know what's better? Flying orcs. I combined forced movement with prone, because the game is supposed to be fun, and this was the perfect opportunity for that. I mean seriously dude?

That sounds hysterical.

Sadly this forum has kinda been under heavy attack from a bunch of trolls recently, and some people have gone into hostile-defensive mode as a result.  The moderators have cleaned up some of the trolling, but certain trolls are still posting merrily away... so yeah.

A bit of bunker mentality, which happens on forums far too often (I don't know why, but to a certain sort of teenage mindset, "forum invasions" are fun and cool).

On behalf of everyone who enjoys funny improv, that sounds amazing. 

   A panda walks into a diner, sits at the counter, and orders a sandwich.
After eating the sandwich, he carefully wipes his mouth and fingers with a napkin before calmly pulling out a gun and blowing away the other six customers in the diner. He then puts away the gun and strolls casually toward the door. As he passes by the hysterically screaming waitress, she manages to choke out the question, "But...but... Why???"
 The panda wordlessly hands her a dictionary, bookmarked at the page containing the word "panda".
 The entry reads, "Panda - noun. A large black and white mammal of Asian origin. Eats, shoots, and leaves."

Eats, shoots, and leaves.

 As a completely written medium, the internet isn't inherently capable of conveying many nuances of spoken communication, particularly tone of voice. In order to convey those sorts of nuances, one must operate within the limits of punctuation, sentence structure, syntax, and word choice, as those are the tools available.

 "So yeah, that happened."

 As a thread title, this could be taken several ways. Clearly, there was an event that you felt was worth bringing up, but in the body of the post you don't actually tell us anything about your motivations or reasons for bringing it up. Was it positive, as in,"hell yeah, did you see that?" Or was it negative, as in, "So this thing happened, and I'm not happy with it..."?
 Personally, as phrased, I felt it gave a somewhat negative connotation... "So yeah - pause - that happened... (And I think I feel the need to say something about it)."

 The rest of the post simply lists facts. Clearly these facts are presented in a manner meant to lead the reader to a specific conclusion. Given that the first three or four sentences are dedicated to pointing out the miniscule size of the pixie and their weapon and ammunition, and then listing a specific power and its damage and effects, one gets the impression (if one assumes a negative connotation of the post's title) that you apparently feel there's some discrepancy or disconnect between the two. This leads the reader to the conclusion that you take issue with the fact that a foot-tall pixie with a slingshot and a grain of sand took out an orcish war party riding on a dinosaur with one shot...
 On these forums, generally when someone makes a post with a somewhat leading title and then presents an anecdote without commenting on it, it's a sign that the poster expects the rest of the forums to "get it", i.e., come to the same conclusions/feel the same way as they did. It's a somewhat confrontational style of posting, actually. This is compounded by the large number of posts put up when the pixie was originally released by angry forumites who disputed the designers' decision to favor simple and workable racial mechanics over an adherance to the verisimilitude of the game world's "physics" - to wit, pixies weren't restricted to tiny low-damage weapons, inability to wear heavy armor because of weight limits on flight and massive physical penalties compared to medium-sized creatures.

 To be honest, if your original post's title had read, "So yeah that happened..." or "So yeah that just happened", without the comma, it would have come across with a more neutral connotation. Removing the word "so" from it would give it an even more positive spin - "Yeah, that just happened." Adding an emoticon in the title would also have gotten your intention across more clearly. (In the future, you might want to consider making liberal use of the emoticons available on this forum.)


On a further pixie-related note, the visual image of a foot-tall pixie grappler fighter or other defender physically throwing medium-sized opponents around the room might be immensely entertaining, but it's literally possible in 4E - in fact, it's actually an immensely effective mechanical character concept.