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🕑 Added 2023-01-03 04:00:02 +0000 UTCFINALLY! A dungeon! Which is sort of odd to say!
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It was like four-dimensional chess setting things up so Rich could say something like this.
I don't know how many games actually use pickaxes and have mines. Obviously, there's Minecraft, but while it's possible to be without a pickaxe and regret it in that game, it's more the norm to have one than not.
George is referring more to games in which pickaxes are entirely optional items, and you could regret choosing to not bring one somewhere it would be very situationally useful.
The one game I AM aware of where you can optionally carry an otherwise-useless pickaxe around is Skyrim, a game I keep going back to because I find it relaxing, and I can just play it while listening to other things. It's like the equivalent of a relatively high tech fidget toy.
And yes, I have found gold ore veins before, and not had a pickaxe.
Part of me wants to make a character who just dual-wields pickaxes, specializes in enchanting to make them actually function in combat, and whoops I thought of yet another character build to play as I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
Comments
Jared Fattmann
Whenever I try dual-wielding pickaxes in Skyrim, I end up going "I'm not a speedrunner for crying out loud". Whole mine is cleared out fast enough as it is already when I do wait on the actual mining animation.
Christopher Smith
I've been laughing about this all day
Otter Annason
depends; a thing i would call a mattock is often called pickaxe, which is def 2-handed; half-way between that and geologist's hammer is the one-handed pickaxe.
Stephen Gilberg
The party is getting into this dungeon because Larry succeeded in persuasion by virtue of hotness. That's the connection.
Some Ed
Pickaxes are meant to be wielded two-handed if I'm not mistaken. That said, I do think they're probably lighter than ones standard two-handed war hammer or axe. Just not enough for most non-barbarians to wield them one-handed.
Some Ed
Some people have difficulty distinguishing themselves from their RPG character, and also confuse their fellow players for their fellow party members. By this logic, he just said a "gay" thing.
M B
I am trying, but can't think of what other meaning he would intend here, and skimming the rest of this storyline didn't help. What am I missing?
Rémy
I assume George already has a 10-feet pole and 50 feet of rope. I can't picture him going out of his way to get a pickaxe while forgetting about the most basic tools of the trade.
Jenora Feuer
If you're playing Nethack, a pickaxe is pretty much a requirement in the Gnomish Mines levels. And great to use to empty out Croesus' vaults if you find them.
Otter Annason
Pickaxe = one-handed war hammer or bec de corbin for purposes of figuring damage and negating opposing shields. I once played a dwarven miner the party rescued and ended up recruiting. She fought with a pickaxe.
wargrunt42
When it comes to dungeoneering, I'd rather make sure I have an over abundance of rope more than a pick axe. Comes in handy when someone's character accidentally falls down an abandoned mine shaft or into a pit trap.
AstroChaos
"Yes, and...?"
KC
Things you say in an RPG that you instantly regret
Stephen Gilberg
It took me a minute to remember the connection between Rich's two statements. At first I thought he meant, "I always wanted to take a hot chick to a dungeon," which sounds sordid.
