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"level-appropriate fire bolts" cost some larger but also non-scaling amount, like 3 or 10. How do you determine what's "level-appropriate" in a point buy system? There's no levels, and everything else is independent variables! https://www.spcforexcel.com/files/images/nocorrelati...

The entire point of a level-based system is that characters get level-appropriate attacks and defenses. Open multiclassing is not compatible with that. "trading raw power for flexibility" is a terrible design goal. If a character gives up "raw power" then they are no longer level...

In 5e, it's not Handle Animal, it's Land Vehicle Proficiency. For some god-awful reason. Pretty sure that they didn't fuck up basic English quite that hard. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/using-ability-scores Animal Handling When there is any question whether you can calm down a dome...

The game is functionally unchanged from release.

So here is the idea: what if you switched out the spells for actions that all players could use? Rather than doing what most games do and maybe include mechanics for 40-50 types of actions crossing 4-5 subsystems, you instead fill the book with a thousand discretely defined actions/mechanics. I kno...

How would different alignments approach the Israel-Palestine question LG: engage this question in good faith because you might not be shitposting NG: engage this question in good faith because the question is a worthwhile one, even if you're shitposting CG: on-topic post that doesn't engage with th...

That's a good point. But Cambions and Tieflings are not "always evil". There's the whole thing where their internal nature is in conflict, they're tortured souls, Darkest Elves (tm), etc etc etc. So there's no moral dilemma when they're babies: you don't kill them because they're not moral...

An important reason to have fiends pop into existence fully formed is that "baby fiends" aren't something you want to have to address.

What you need is for Demons or Devils to come into existence ex nihilo , at rates that vastly exceed even the most optimal carrying capacities for their territory. Infinite planes and infinite demons are bad for all kinds of reasons. That's why I proposed endless demons. It's only infinite given in...

What you need is for Demons or Devils to come into existence ex nihilo , at rates that vastly exceed even the most optimal carrying capacities for their territory. In a world where there's not enough food and always more and more mouths, you get to have as many evil-on-evil conflicts as you want (a ...

Was Evo Morales allowed to stand for a fourth term when he was initially elected? No. No he was not. Wikipedia has a nice article on the constitutional history of Bolivia. They conveniently link to this book about the country: https://www.loc.gov/resource/frdcstdy.boliviacountryst00huds_0/?sp=211 M...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Who is at fault...

Whoever goes online to ask internet strangers to take sides in the blame game.

Try asking "what (NOT who) needs to change" instead.

The same issue exists and is compounded by d100 style systems. If you're supposed to be really good at something, you still end up failing 10-20% of the time. I wouldn't call someone that fucks up 1/5 of the time an 'expert'. I would. In my experience, experts typically do a lot worse than that (an...

Kaelik wrote:The thing here is that none of these people have personal experience that would lead them to any of these conclusions so where on earth are they getting them?

The media plays a huge role, but don't underestimate simple deference to authority figures.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/11/bolivia-coup-fascist-foreign-support-fernando-camacho/ When Luis Fernando Camacho stormed into Bolivia’s abandoned presidential palace in the hours after President Evo Morales’s sudden November 10 resignation, he revealed to the world a side of the country that sto...

So, sure, technically these were elected judges. Voters chose them from a list. But his party controlled the creation of the list! It's not correct to say that he appointed the judges. But neither is it correct to imply that the judges were freely elected. 1) So it's actually an illegitimate court ...

For fuck's sake. Morales appointed the Supreme Court guys who ruled that. They were elected. Morales didn't appoint them. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/10/2011101773619158951.html The opposition had urged voters to abstain from voting or cast blank ballots in the first election to di...

Tabletop RPGs are about making a series of interesting decisions. The consequences of those decisions become the story. That means you need decision points, and that they should be meaningful. In other words, you should have some idea of the consequences of each particular choice ahead of time. Rule...

The Austrians do use some mathematical models, but they maintain that models fail to sufficiently illustrate the complexity of human behavior. The scientific method is great if we're investigating properties of inanimate objects or physical phenomena, but it falls short when applied to the social s...

A quick note on the "austrian school" since some people may not be familiar with the term. While they were the first to identify several important concepts in economics (such as the idea of "opportunity cost"), those ideas were quickly adopted by everyone. What distinguishes them...

The Dwarves that matter aren't bothered by a need for air and fuel because they famously have tons of access to both. Dwarves live meters under the earth, not miles. Being even slightly underground still gives you a massive ventilation problem, though. Not insoluble, though, but historically it too...

However, ICE was factually NOT controlling the border for over 30 years. This may be the first entirely factual statement from AC0. That's by accident, of course. ICE was created in 2003, making the agency only 16 years old. And even for those 16 years it didn't "control the border" becau...

https://www.adl.org/who-we-are/our-organization/signature-programs/law-enforcement-trainings ADL pays for cops, ICE, etc to meet with their Israeli counterparts for shared training and knowledge exchanges. This has been going on for years and they clearly have no plans to stop. It's really quite bad...

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And a more recent update (with some additional context on The Quartering): https://www.gamerevolution.com/game-cul ... sy-youtube