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by Starmaker
Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:38 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Making skill challenges work
Replies: 13
Views: 1417

I'd make go on a quest the second from the left, that way the PCs can 'lose' a little bit and only have to pay the cost of going on an adventure. Your setup makes them want to lose harder so they don't have to give up any power. My setup is of course arbitrary and it roughly scales by time invested...
by Starmaker
Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:02 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Youtube videos that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
Replies: 1644
Views: 319907

Misheard Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh86Acj94d4
song: Hot Limit by John Desire
by Starmaker
Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:55 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Making skill challenges work
Replies: 13
Views: 1417

And another track for something the king gets from you:
Nothing! <---> Money <---> Magic Item <---> Go on a Quest <---> Swear Fealty
by Starmaker
Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:33 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: Paladin Rewrite
Replies: 4
Views: 1341

Re: Paladin Rewrite

Needs Atonement at level 1 with no XP cost for the paladin and perhaps a limit on atonement frequency for a particular character.
by Starmaker
Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:14 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: Shadowrun Horror
Replies: 106
Views: 39209

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by Starmaker
Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:48 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why does the Lady of Pain render gamers short in the pants?
Replies: 43
Views: 8681

From what I have seen, the Lady of Pain is a designer and DM penis extension one hundred percent. It may be because of where I've read about her-namely the WotC message boards when I went there-but all I've seen of her is "lol you get flayed/mazed" "lol no u can't do dat LoP iz dere!...
by Starmaker
Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:31 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why does the Lady of Pain render gamers short in the pants?
Replies: 43
Views: 8681

Koumei wrote:All over the Internet, people throw the term around haphazardly. It now means "something I don't like". Similar to Weeaboo, really. It now just means "something I don't like".
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by Starmaker
Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:55 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Stephen Colbert to retask hateclub
Replies: 16
Views: 2047

Last time I checked, only the snogger article was b&.
by Starmaker
Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:58 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why does the Lady of Pain render gamers short in the pants?
Replies: 43
Views: 8681

it's all a giant drama-llama-fest where Mama LoP is trying to keep her bickering offspring from hurting each other (and you know that rascally Asmodeus, he's such a sweet boy when he's playing with his older cousin Heironious and they go around enforcing broken laws, but he just can't help getting ...
by Starmaker
Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:30 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why does the Lady of Pain render gamers short in the pants?
Replies: 43
Views: 8681

Nope. ... Still sounds like penis-waving. 'My city is so awesome that not even ALL THE GODS CAN CONQUER IT MUAHAHA'. Um... yeah? The Lady reacts to 1) worshiping her 2) planar war on the streets 3) killing dabus, and the perpetrators are either v& or b& IRL. This is all quite understandable...
by Starmaker
Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:06 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why does the Lady of Pain render gamers short in the pants?
Replies: 43
Views: 8681

Tthe most important strategic location in the game world, if it should exist and be known, has to stay unconquered by any conflicting forces through the whole history of the game world. With (T = inf) and (N conflicting forces = over 9000), the neutral force controlling it has to be quite impressive...
by Starmaker
Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:25 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Stephen Colbert to retask hateclub
Replies: 16
Views: 2047

Influental as in "the world wouldn't be the same without him", not as in "ordering people around". So you could say the poll sort of reflects reality, selection bias and ballot stuffing taken into account.

Cat abuse is serious business, though.
by Starmaker
Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:12 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: ARGH Wizards is moronic
Replies: 16
Views: 2392

Wat. I've read the policy and it concerns Magic. The definition of Customer in the text is "someone who buys Magic for personal use". Probably trying to fight foil weighters or something. Good luck with that, yeah, but what does it have to do with books?
by Starmaker
Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:08 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Web sites that makes us laugh, cry, or both
Replies: 662
Views: 113396

PMS is bullshit, along with female hysteria. Menstruation, in addition to obvious concerns, can be painful like beind repeatedly stabbed in the stomach with a blunt knife. It being over is a cause for seeing lollipops and rainbows everywhere, not for bitching.
by Starmaker
Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:10 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: What if...armor granted HP?
Replies: 28
Views: 4054

-Armour Has a Temp HP value. -When worn, the wearer gets that value. -If the armour is damaged in combat, it will "re-set" once combat is over, to it's original maximum. -If an armour is damaged until it is at 0 hp; then when it "re-sets" the total armour that it can now provide...
by Starmaker
Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:51 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Arguments in favor of 4th Edition
Replies: 458
Views: 45159

Wizard 1, Martial Weapon Proficiency. Be a LA+0 outsider instead for the proficiencies and alter self cheese. What about the party wizard? Can he bust out the full plate? Wearing fullplate starts to be a suboptimal choice at some point. As a DM, I disallow newbs when they ask for yet another option...
by Starmaker
Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:48 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: "[The Sage] Smokes Crack"
Replies: 22
Views: 3210

When I started playing D&D (AD&D 1e, for the record), Baldur's Gate was big, which made lots of people familiar with the setting to some extent. It's also a ripoff of LotR, which makes it easier to relate to. The Drizzt books are still popular, at least 100 years after first printing. And Wi...
by Starmaker
Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:59 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: "[The Sage] Smokes Crack"
Replies: 22
Views: 3210

Psychic Robot wrote: I must know more about these nerfs. Elaborations, please?
Here.
by Starmaker
Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:30 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Some questions on statistics
Replies: 18
Views: 3177

Shadowrun statistics dump

20th Anniversary Shadowrun 4 MatLab R2008a Basic probabilities: straightforward Bernoulli distribution Explosions: iterative method 1 to 20 dice 0 to 10 successes (1) Isometric overview: http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/codexhammer/th_Shadowrun.png Z: probability to roll Y+ successes on X dice...
by Starmaker
Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:15 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: Shadowrun Horror
Replies: 106
Views: 39209

FrankTrollman wrote:Sonya Rostova - the Vandal
*headdesk*
by Starmaker
Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:00 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Some questions on statistics
Replies: 18
Views: 3177

The same graph with the grid added: http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/codexhammer/d6vsd20grid.png Also, the thresholds are now corrected, and yes, I fvcked up, that would be +7 for d20. The idea is that a probability becomes noticeably lower if it's e (~=3) times less than usual (I'm going to u...
by Starmaker
Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:22 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Some questions on statistics
Replies: 18
Views: 3177

In fact, we can define an "elementary permutation" as a sequence of n items chosen from a set of n different items (which means there are E(n) = n! possible EPs) A B C D E F G H . . . . . . . . to -- example . . . . . . . . E C F B H A D G and think of any given permutation (example, k=5: ...
by Starmaker
Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:21 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Some questions on statistics
Replies: 18
Views: 3177

2. Combinations without repeats. We have an assortment of n different items (A B C D E F G H) and have to select a set of k of these items. The order in which we select items is now irrelevant. A mental experiment (as in Permutations) generates a sequence of elements, where A B C D E, C D B A E and ...
by Starmaker
Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:04 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Some questions on statistics
Replies: 18
Views: 3177

Intermission.

0! is defined as 1 as a generalization. P(n, n) should for obvious reasons equal n*(n-1)*(n-2)*(n-3)*...*3*2*1, and the formula gives us n!/(n-n)!. Thus 0! = 1.
by Starmaker
Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:42 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Some questions on statistics
Replies: 18
Views: 3177

1. Permutations (without repeats). We have an assortment of n different items (A B C D E F G H) and have to select a sequence of k of these items (where k<=n, obviously). n=8, k=5 A B C D E F G H -- 8 items to choose from 1 2 3 4 5 . . . . . -- the sequence, currently empty So we choose the first it...