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Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:12 am

What if they didn't forget. What if they did it intentionally?

Then they intentionally made a bad system.

They didn't. They didn't didn't. And let them explain themselves. Don't put words in their mouth. Especially when those words take the statement I was critical of that was the conclusion of their point on "why Ignore X Immunity is wrong" and turn those words into a total non-sequitur only...

By my definition a 200kg barbell isn't "immune to being picked up by toddlers" it's just heavy. So if you had a protection system with ranks, like you have rank 1 fire protection that made you take no damage from fires of rank 1 or less, but full damage from rank 2 or greater, and so on, ...

Giving a concrete and specific testable definition of something is the exact opposite of "no true Scotsman". "A Scotsman is someone who has lived in Scotland for a significant portion of their life and self-identifies as Scottish" vs "no true Scotsman enjoys jazz". Mean...

In the most abstract sense PL is right that all else being equal there's functionally no difference between having fire immunity vs super fire that bypasses immunity and having fire immunity vs radiant fire that bypasses fire immunity. In both cases there's an ability that shuts down X, then another...

No, the evidence presented is "people with actual credibility/expertise said so". Paul Krugman is just the establishment's pocket Keynsian who's job is to be resoundly mocked by the Very Serous People for his relatively milquetoast center-left hot takes until the moment rich people need s...

The valsalva maneuver , where you breathe in, breath out against a closed glottis (so that no air actually escapes, but the intrathoracic pressure is raised) is actually standard procedure in boring academic medicine, so I doubt this trick would provoke much hate from doctors. We used the maneuver ...

I think the idea is to make things less cookie cutter by removing the ability to make "When in <situation> add <#> to <stat>" feats, and instead getting abilities.

It's not just a balance thing, I also think people would be a lot more accepting of a lot of the presented ideas if they're tied to their own stat that says they're super special awesome at it. If only Resonance hackers can do Brain Hacking then I think there'd be a lot less squawking about it. Sinc...

I personally wouldn't have any problem with there being some sort of expensive tag you had to have before you could cast spells or summon demons as a combat action . But I think things would be improved considerably if access to time consuming ritual magic was opened up. What's odd of course, is th...

Why don't you guys just ask your cult leader about it. People have a fundamental human right to ask other people for casual sex. [emphasis in original.] OMG SOULS LOL Not "souls" because Frank believes in a state that protects and grants those rights. In the United States people have free...

Full casting, stat replacement, and an animal companion are why CoDzilla has the "oD" in it. As much as other classes need boosties, the Cleric and Druid need it toned down a bit. So you give them three tracks: 1. Full Caster 2. Wild Shape 3. Animal Companion Pick two. If you're feeling ch...

Well, you have to draw the line somewhere . You don't have enough resources to fix all the problems in the galaxy, and frankly no exploration vessel is going to have enough resources to fix all the problems of a planet. Well technically and officially Starfleet does have enough resources to fix all...

I know the prime directive bans giving lasers to cave men, but does it also ban the Enterprise from knocking a killer asteroid off course to save said cave men? I think they're allowed, but I honestly don't remember.

If that's true, then the program limits are absurd.

Padded Sumo does the opposite of what you're suggesting it does. In Padded Sumo you have to stand there and shoot every round because if you fall even the littlest bit behind on damage output you've lost and can never make it up. I think what would actually make hackers viable is a version of Rocke...

Honestly, there's probably no non-crappy advancement system that's possible for Feng Shui. You really have to rebuild certain assumptions of the game from the ground up. So you pretty much just need to implement some kind of "Everyone agrees to stick to their archetype" social contract. Be...

Except then you've expanded "power fantasy" to be so broad that it encompasses literally every motivation it's possible to have for playing games. What differentiates "escapism" "character development" and "puzzle solving" from "power fantasy"? If ev...

Actually it kind of does. Are you fighting beholders as a way to compensate for a feeling of helplessness in your real life? Then that's a power fantasy. Are you fighting beholders because it's a good way to relax and have fun with your friends? Not a power fantasy . I like reading Snow Crash becaus...

Padded Sumo does the opposite of what you're suggesting it does. In Padded Sumo you have to stand there and shoot every round because if you fall even the littlest bit behind on damage output you've lost and can never make it up. I think what would actually make hackers viable is a version of Rocket...

Yes, but on the other hand I'm happy that I don't get in fights with the local pimp, and have no desire to do so in real life.

It's not whether it's in my real life comfort zone, it's whether it's a real life desire.

"power fantasy" has a specific connotation of compensating for some deficiency that's not included in "accomplishing interesting things" or even "fantasizing about being powerful". It's the difference between saying "Every NPC is controlled by the DM" and &quo...

And what about the gun example? In a setting where guns can be hacked (and remain the pinnacle of personal weapons tech), would you not use a gun? This is a non-issue because you can throw guns away. Therefore I carry around my super-wiz cybergun with thermal imaging and auto-targeting hooked up to...

Yeah, I never played it, but while discussing it with a big big fan of the game I remember the system being incredibly dedicated to cockblocking and constipating everyone from gaining anything approaching competence . Literally a system in which Sex Mages can't run BDSM clubs and Money Mages can't r...