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Have windows 10, and every so often for reasons I'm not sure about, it'll decided to change from English Australia keyboard to English US keyboard. I think there's a shortcut I'm unaware of that I keep entering while writing things, not sure how to turn it off. Probably command + space. Go to Regio...

Thanks for the link, hopefully the final release plays as well as it looks. I recommend Twilight Frontier's New Super Marisa Land; it's the best Mario clone I've ever played. Tight controls, reasonable challenges, and a great OST. Tasofro released a sequel on Steam a few months ago, MarisaLand Legac...

Life is too short for movies as generic as Aquaman. I walked in an hour late (around when he gets captured) and I feel like I didn't miss anything at all.

The buttoo's look like they were going for these characters 王 カ ... but got the second one as a mirror image, maybe because the original art got flipped to fit with the page layout. カ 王 = King? Ass King? Thanks for asking? I dunno. 力&#29579...

The Japanese class names are Elf, Royal, Witch, Dragon, Necromancy, Vampire, Bishop, and Neutral, transliterated from English. Storm would be better translated as "Sprint." "Sparrow" is Google Translate fucking with you. Banish is more like "Extinction." Other deck term...

Hiram McDaniels wrote:

Shatner wrote:There's a lot to see in this image. Give it time to unfold.

Where did you find that painting? I've been looking all over for the source but I can't find it.

Here you go.

Wiseman wrote:If you're designing an oriental setting, you could be helped by drawing from Touhou.

Gensokyo is an extremely small scale kitchen sink setting, not really anything like L5R. Also, fuck Touhou d20.

maglag wrote:What, no mention of Touhou vampires? Shame on you!

In PC-98 canon there's also Kurumi, a typical Stage 2 boss who gets beaten up and made fun of. She brings down the average power level of Touhou vampires by a lot.

I don't know how everybody forgot it until now, including me, but Touhou is a videogame and one of its main themes is "(almost) every legend and myth is now a girl". Touhou 13 in particular had Prince Shoutoku turned into a woman because magic. No, Touhou posits a secret history where Pri...

OgreBattle wrote:I found some old thread where it was mentioned that Sydney has a 15m wall with a giant gear-gate protecting it, is that for real?

Sure, here's a photo.

I stopped playing last year after 1ccing most of the games on Lunatic, but since Touhou 15 and TouhouCon I've been getting back in the groove. It seems like a great year for Touhou in general and I haven't even played 14.5 yet. Best general advice I can give is to use practice mode. Fighting Meiling...

What do people think of Paizo's crit deck and the like? I use Roll20 instead of a physical battle mat for my game and I'm poking around at the cards and tables stuff, was thinking about putting that in. Roll20's card feature is cool, but not cool enough to find excuses to add card mechanics just fo...

Those items are not that terrible, considering they cost almost nothing. Not quite. Either the PCs pay for them, or the GM charges for them. The math is all worked out to allow GMs to use a few different systems for the advancement, including automatic advancement (in which case, it's recommended t...

This. You said something about good and bad ways to play the class to keep up, but if there is a good way to play the Time Thief that involves taking levels of Time Thief I have no idea what it is. I'm suggesting that momo try bolting on some real class features while paying lip service to the time...

Calling it now: the only significant change to the barbarian will be that rage cycling is banned.

Some players will be offended by the suggestion that they play the same concept in a different class, so tread lightly. It's possibly safer to bolt on some real abilities to the original. In fact, I once witnessed this exact situation with this exact class. The GM explained to the player, very mildl...

I actually like Shattered Star. Of course, I like dungeon crawling. The AP gives a reasonable amount of support for adventures in-between dungeons, without giving too much of a shit about how they go about their adventures. This alone makes it a lot less railroady than most APs. Again, there are som...

This coffee-table book from S. T. Joshi and Metro Books is essentially an effort to provide a popular biography of Lovecraft. I...don't like this one. Lavishly illustrated and glossy, at 160 pages it's too short for a proper biography and too long for and wordy for a popular one. I know that sounds...

Blood pH doesn't change easily, but when it changes at all the results are not good. Shooting up diluted vinegar would probably either do nothing or put you in a coma, with not much in-between.

Faust. Stay, Mephistophilis! and tell me what good Will my soul do thy lord. Meph. Enlarge his kingdom. Faust. Is that the reason why he tempts us thus? Meph. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (Misery loves company) Faust. Why, have you any pain that torture others? Meph. As great as have th...

I'm not convinced Conan is viable at level 5, even if he's a match for fifty orcs. Instead of just orcs, he could be fighting locust swarms or an invisible archer. Even at low levels there are plenty of encounters that give VAHs trouble, and it isn't acceptable to water those encounters down. How do...

134: Marsfall I don't know enough about Farcast to comprehend this entry. Looootsa jargon here. Someone else please review this. 134: Marsfall Calling the settlement of Mars "Marsfall" is confusing when the setting also has "The Fall." TITANs are bullshit, and I have some troubl...

How much of Dungeonomicon, Races of War, and Book of Gears could you import to a Pathfinder game and how much work would it be? Not much more work than importing it into 3.5, really; the rules are similar enough in all the right places. The biggest differences, like CMB, get dropped anyways. Finish...

So what do people think of Golarion? It's unimaginative. So much so that there's little reason to use it over a homebrew if you're not taking advantage of the adventure support. Seriously, if you made up a setting as you went along and suddenly announced "Here be Vikings!" you have done e...

I have seen Marid = Water, Dao = Earth, Ifrit = Fire before. Arcana for the SNES most readily springs to mind, but I'm positive that I've seen it in other properties. Marid = Water, Ifrit = Fire is widespread. In fact, I haven't seen any property where that wasn't the case. Can you find a depiction...