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[RT] Tale of an Industrious Rogue
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Author: u/andor3333 *
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URL: http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Tale_of_an_Industrious_Rogue,_Part_I
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Score: 33
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Created: 2015-09-20T00:54:08
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u/GrecklePrime [+8] (3 minutes later)
While I'm not quite sure this would be considered strictly rational, this is one of the most fun D&D stores I've ever read.
u/Transfuturist [+8] Carthago delenda est. (5 hours later)
/tg/ has a bounty of great stories. There was one very long saga I remember about a group of Earth humans dropped into a typical D&D setting, and they try to keep themselves together as a group and survive. I remember there was a bit of a focus on warring technology; that was where I first learned about the strategic benefits of mounted soldiers.
u/afreaknamedpete [+9] (7 hours later)
10 minutes of googling later... "Stranded in Fantasy"?
u/Transfuturist [+2] Carthago delenda est. (a day later)
Yes, that sounds right.
u/InvisibleRegrets [+1] (3 days later)
Ah! That was amazing, thanks!
u/afreaknamedpete [+1] (7 hours later)
Sounds rather interesting, do you recall its name or something that would make it easier to search for?
u/FuguofAnotherWorld [+1] Roll the Dice on Fate (a day later)
If I'm not grabbed by entry 72, am I likely to get grabbed by the rest of the story? So far the prose is dry and the story uninspired. Does it pick up?
The wiki entry says 'and then it gets awesome', have I passed that point or is it still to come?
u/afreaknamedpete [+2] (2 days later)
I read the whole thing. It's pretty okay, nothing amazing and it stretches disbelief by the end. The beginning is the strongest part, so if you aren't grabbed by entry 72 it's probably not worth continuing.
u/FuguofAnotherWorld [+1] Roll the Dice on Fate (2 days later)
Thanks for the info, guess I'll give it a miss.
u/Transfuturist [+1] Carthago delenda est. (a day later)
I haven't read it in a few years, so I wouldn't know.
u/Forty-Bot [+1] (2 months later)
Hey, thanks for the referral. That was a pretty good read.
u/Transfuturist [+1] Carthago delenda est. (2 months later)
You're welcome! I barely remember any of it! :D
u/Pakars [+2] (3 hours later)
It is indeed fantastically entertaining, to be sure.
At the very least, I would call it at least somewhat rational, as they decided to go munchkinning for enormous profits.
u/None [+9] (12 hours later)
It was like watching a paperclipping AI with a few transistors loose and a utility function composed of dollar signs.
u/andor3333 [+8] (14 hours later)
That is a good way of putting it. At a certain point his motivations don't just jump the shark, they airlift the aboleth.
u/JackStargazer [+1] Primordial Apologist (a day later)
I'm halfway through the second one, and this isn't just a paperclipping AI, it'as a hegemonizing swarm.
u/FuguofAnotherWorld [+2] Roll the Dice on Fate (15 hours later)
I'm halfway through, laughing like a hyena. It is glorious.
u/drageuth2 [+2] (a day later)
It's not D&D but have you ever read the tale of Old Man Henderson?
u/Vebeltast [+3] You should have expected the bayesian inquisition! (a day later)
I did something like this once. I built a fighter that did enough damage per round to tunnel through normal materials at speed, according to the hit-points-per-inch-of-thickness tables in the DMG, and then started bypassing dungeons by going through walls and around fortifications. Eventually my DM got sufficiently annoyed that he declared that the wizard's tower that was the next dungeon had walls of solid adamantine. Mistake. Adamantine has a price-per-pound. It's a big price-per-pound. I funded basically the rest of the campaign by selling off chunks of that tower.
u/tilkau [+1] (a day later)
I have to admit when I read the title, I thought of roguelikes. Has anyone posted on /r/rational about them before? IMO, the best games in the genre (DCSS, Brogue) are some of the best games full stop, at demanding thought out action, rewarding relentlessly rational behaviour and punishing irrational behaviour.
u/Marthinwurer [+1] (a day later)
Some of my favorites from 1d4chan:
Old Man Henderson
Stranded in Fantasy
u/FeepingCreature [+1] GCV Literally The Entire Culture (a day later)
Murderhobodom at its most refined.