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- Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Genre Poll
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3078
EW - 4/10 MoD - 5/10 FSiM - 7/10 OE - 3/10 TLotT - 6/10 CE - 7/10 WotG - 7/10 ASS - 7/10 MoV - 8/10 WC - 6/10 IEID - 8/10 All of those are purely subjective and personal scores, of course. All of them bear potential for great stories, but I simply like the theme and mechanical solutions they provoke...
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31494
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31494
Having now satisfactorily* established that we could add a paragraph to explain how shoehorning in True Faith isn't automatically cultural appropriation depending on how you do it, you then still haven't answered why we should want to include it at all. What does it add to vampire stories if you ca...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31494
fueled by the belief of the Person performing them. I think this is where people lose you. This is all very Mage the Ascension/Unknown Armies style postmodernism. Actual Christians and Shintoists will of course tell you that belief has nothing to do with anything - Christian ancestor spirits object...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31494
gonna need some citations on that, 'cause it sure looks like you're trying to tell all religions that they work like Christianity as far as vampires are concerned Longes hit the nail on the head. Of course their exorcisms don't work the same, but they all have magical rituals to deal with evil pres...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31494
But it happens to work exactly like the Christian concept of the State of Grace that protects you from the forces of evil, and not at all like the Buddhist concept of enlightenment to the center of the eightfold path. It's all very well and good to pat yourself on the back for being open minded by ...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31494
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Vampires: what would they actually believe?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4446
Fairly young vampires would likely hold the same beliefs they had before they were turned. You could consider turning a traumatising event and people suffering from identity uncertainty fall back to rules, values and beliefs that are familiar, mostly from their early development stages. You would th...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
The most obvious retort to the claim that you can easily handle Stealth as a single skill is the simple reality that there is no easy way to handle Stealth. Full fucking stop. I have to agree on that Point. But even so, you don't really gain anything meaningful by splitting stealth into two skills ...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
@Jason Yes, 3.x characters needed more skills. That's because skills were actually cool and useful, even if they were just 'fluff'. They provided a mechanical hook for an important way to distinguish your character. Your martial character that plays a flute could be just different enough from my si...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
I think this is the part of the argument that I have the most trouble with, as it denies any sort of logical extension to situations the rules don't cover and aims to thwart any attempts to derive consistent conclusions. Spells doing exactly what they say is certainly consistent and straightforward...
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
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- Tue Sep 25, 2018 6:48 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
Well...RAW, you can shoot people on the Ethereal Plane. That's actually one of the important Points. If Ethereal Jaunt allows you to attack Targets on the ethereal plane without restrictions that ranged ammunition cannot simply drop back into the material plane. There is also this part about Ethere...
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
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Anyone who put even the TINIEST amount of work into reading what I've said in this thread would realize why this is fucking stupid and nothing to do with what I have said. Learn to read or fuck off. Then you need to reread, what you actually wrote. He very specifically whined about how the rules I ...
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954760
No one is claiming that specific rules about what happens when you put an object down or pick one up don't apply. The point is that there must also be a rule you apply when no specific rule applies, and that that rule is that things you put down are not you. Your entire line of reasoning is based o...
- Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
- Replies: 168
- Views: 55822
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150307
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Undying
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4784