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Who Is Ellen - 125 - HD
🕑 Added 2023-05-04 03:01:44 +0000 UTCCHICKEN PERCEIVED
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This chicken has done nothing to deserve such a harsh burn.
I listened to a game once when the characters were whispering, and the players were whispering, too. This seemed to work fine for them at the table, but listening to the video of it, I had trouble hearing what they were saying.
When one of them said, in a perfectly audible way, to take it as given that she was whispering, and the rest followed her example, I was VERY appreciative.
I also imagine this could be troublesome just while playing without an audience, however, so I boldly assume this is valid Table Top RPG commentary.
Comments
Crissa Kentavr
In RIFTS, Dragons had shapeshifting... but could not change their mass. So a Dragon turned into a chicken would be a veritable immobile object.
AstroChaos
It's a Quality Chicken.
Some Ed
I didn't want to respond quickly on this, as it's been a long time since I've been to any state fair, let alone one with a prize winning chicken. But many years ago, I was taken to a state fair which *did* have a prize winning chicken. I saw said chicken. I did not see anything special about the prize winning chicken. I am not going to go so far as to say I have never seen a more basic chicken. There were over 200 chickens who lived on the farm that I was living on at the time. Those chickens were both egg layers as well as future dinners, so turnover probably meant in the time I lived there, I got to know in excess of 400 chickens. We had a number of neighbors who also had some chickens, so I probably saw well over 1000 chickens in my lifetime. There was a lot of competition for "most basic chicken I've ever seen." Disclaimer: I was a kid. I wasn't a chicken enthusiast.
KC
"I roll to see if the chicken is a dragon in disguise!"
Foradain
At many gaming conventions I've played at, actual whispers would have been inaudible to the other players at the same table. Normal voices were only slightly less so.
Stephen Gilberg
The word of the day is "stage whisper."
John
I agree the drawing looks kind of perfect but: https://www.poultryhub.org/all-about-poultry/species/fancy-chicken-breeds
Bastiandantilus
After looking at the drawing of the chicken I was sure the text was going to say something about how lovely and perfect it was, because it's a lovely and perfect drawing of a chicken.
David Fenger
Or is there an illusion at play?
Changer
That is a tricky thing. does it look basic because it is basic, or does it look basic because by Earth standards, it's basic and by this world's standards, it's incredible?
