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That's not entirely true. Look at all the low-level/let's play a basketweaver final destination/4rries and so on. It may be boring as fuck (to your average Denner) but it clearly is not boring to a good-sized portion of tabletop players. On the SR side, part of the conceit is that you may have capab...

There was an interesting tidbit by Krugman: In advance of the referendum, the European Central Bank cut off their access to additional funds, helping to precipitate panic and force the government to impose a bank holiday and capital controls. The central bank now faces an awkward choice: if it resu...

You may expect the french police to do something about that. You would be correct. Uber french executives were the ones arrested because of the riots . Uber then basically said "fuck this shit, we're out of here!". Fucking finally. The way world governments bend over to Uber while skullfu...

Greece is a fascinating case, because a lot of the standard neoliberal control tactics (invent an excuse for war) don't apply, and the Syriza government is quite open about giving the 'Fuck you' to the banksters. My guess is that the neoliberals'll fuck the Greece banking system (which they already ...

Not to agree with Silva or anything, but I'm pretty sure there are easier ways to get chicks to blow you than 'teach them about reconstructionist shamanism.'

Holy Christ, Sacred Geometry is literally asking you to play Countdown in the middle of a TTRPG session.

Div wizards are always nice. You only have to ban one school (evocation) and everything else is gravy. Plus, its always fun going 'Oh yeah, so the McGuffin is exactly this way and also here is a layout of the dungeon, treasure, and all the traps.'

People are still playing DDO?

I have the opposite feeling. FO3 was sort of shit and samey, and I honestly could give less of a crap about the DC wasteland. NV on the other hand made me feel invested in the politics and hating the shit out of Benny. Also, it had a lot more gags and jokes.

A feat is worth 3 levels worth of HD, BAB, and Save progression. It better be worth it. That's not true, because you don't trade those next 3 levels for an extra feat. You can't buy a feat with 3 levels. Conversely, getting a feat should not be a +3 to level, that's retarded. Feats are worth an ext...

Why are there so many assholes among the scientists ? Landau was famous for being the same. He got fired. Actually what happened is he resigned from a purely Honorary position, after being asked to and told he was going to be kicked out if he didn't. That position has no effect on his actual work a...

I'd prefer bringing it closer in line with core DnD conceits, (and maybe tie it into Spelljammer just so I can imagine Elf Empire raids on the Sphere). Also an explanation of the 'tech' used and such and how it differs from typical magic.

I dunno Longes, I could find a use for an extraneous third dick on a dickwolf. Speaking on the Matrix, the magic comes from the fact that there is no longer any sort of understandable base for the Matrix (now that would seem to imply that hackers can no longer hack because THE MATRIX IS UNKNOWABLE W...

Silva, you are a lying piece of shit. oMage is a terrible system in every single way, starting with 'It's White Wolf' and ending with 'My physical ability to give great blowjobs.' Interacting with the magic system in any way (you know, BEING A FUCKING MAGE) involves going 'Pretty please GM, I promis...

My kitty died. Her name was Vesta and she literally followed me home from the street one day when she was a kitten. I took her to my apartment and she grew up, but she was still less than a year old. Then night before last I forgot to close my sixth-story bedroom window and she fell out. I found her...

Added-gas passenger elevator put me in mind of a steampunk-styled orbital elevator. Which is actually pretty fucking awesome.

It looks fucking sweet, man. I always wanted to buy model kits, but that shit is fucking expensive.

Met a girl at a bar last night, red-headed lead singer for a metalcore band. She seemed totally into me and we hung out the entire night, and only went home at 7 the next morning. Now I'm hoping I read her reactions right and not screw it up...

You over-hype what turns out to be a shitty rip-off of a different game, and then are surprised when reviews and poor sales kill your product. I'd say I feel sorry for them, because it sounds like they care about the game...but I don't. Fuckers ruined something that could have been beautiful.

I have a game with the stereotypical idiot Viking barbarian (the player is also literally from Norway) and while he is often amusing, I often hurt his feelings by going 'What's your Int? 7? Yeah, you're not allowed to make tactical choices.'

I play an Enchanter, obviously.

Jesus fucking christ. No, that was not the expectation at all. Notice how Gygax says the player can't play for 3 months. Also note how that punishment is meant to stop the player from taking those actions in the future. This was meant as a quick aside, you assholes make me want to start a thread ab...

Also, IIRC, First off, it looks like Force is only relevant for drain calculations and as the Limit of the spell, and yet is used as a general classification of spell power. Is there any reason I can't buy+bind a Force 1 Sustaining Focus and cast my Increase Reflexes spell at Force 1 and use Edge to...

Well remember, you were expected to have a running stable of characters - so saying 'My wizard is busy making wands for half a year' actually isn't unreasonable if the expectation is 'The player will pull out another character while his wizard is busy.' Obviously, that isn't the expectation in moder...

I want a Gilda plushie now.