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Having damage bonuses based on critical hits vs having damage bonuses based on falt footed vs having damage bonuses based on flat footed vs having damage bonuses based on yes all the time vs having damages based on not being hit last round are mostly mechanically different, but it's a VERY small mec...

Ideally, with a class based system you can say 'my character is level x' and that means something relative to someone else who also has a level x character. Total points may serve a similar function, but they don't have to. I find it interesting in a way I don't have any clear articulable point abo...

And if it were, your assertion that having three classes that all did the same thing (be necromancers) might be a good thing is almost diametrically opposed to the expressly stated design philosophy of the Tomes as I understand it. I mean the Tome of Necromancy explicitly lays out necromantic optio...

I rarely consider a specific individual user when discussing a rules concept and honestly find it weird and difficult to do so. Much less how their specific rebranded version of the Gentleman's Contract with the serial numbers filed off definitely effects game play to the point of informal rules wr...

Why on earth would it be limited the GM. I mean I think Fox, and definitely I, am talking about our ongoing Tomish games, not trying to design a system to sell to people. The GM is not making everyone's class. Everyone CAN use existing classes, all nine million of them, including ones written by oth...

The thing is, you should do the elkothar thing with your last thing. It would be a lot of work for me to somehow write a base class for every single class in the game that used and elementalist axi system and also multiclassed well for every other class in the game. It would be a lot easier to write...

Formations Expert [/size] " We would be absolutely fucked right now, except of course that I spent three months carving runes on these little stakes. " The Formations Expert prepares complex magic by writing down a bunch of fancy magic one a bunch of little pieces of stuff and then placin...

I don't think 120 damage is RNG breaking at 17th level. +6 damage is not level appropriate at 16th level. +0 Damage is level appropriate at 16th level and every other level. +120 damage on every attack at 17th level is RNG breaking. It's also added onto being a 17th level class with full BAB and so...

Here is amount of dice had and then placed for each level ignoring the once per day ability and assuming you hold your River for a reason to change, though you obviously should be pretty liberal with the River: Level: Dice after rolling and discarding: Dice that can be placed 1: 1 2 2: 1 3 3: 2 4 4:...

I feel like the break between getting +6 to damage (level 1 to 16) and getting +120 to damage is very extreme (level 17). The break point between casting Burning Hands and Meteor Swarm is also pretty big. It's a 17th level ability to do RNG breaking amounts of damage and hit on every attack roll th...

The Biden admin responded to Columbia university evicting students with no notice in violation of state law and ordering the cops to go in and bust heads so bad that the NYPD kept suggesting maybe Columbia should chill out by saying how the protesters deserve it: "While every American has the r...

Today I learned there is a specific sub group of the State Department that exists solely to take in Leahy violations in relation specifically to Israel and then never ever ever ever ever ever ever produce an evaluation result, so they never have to acknowledge that it's illegal under US law to arm I...

Kaelik Fighter [/size] "I'm feeling lucky." The Kaelik Fighter does Fighter things, but I get to decide what Fighter things are, so they get super powers, but the super powers are all conditional on rolling well and they can't always do all of them and I get to invent a new resource manag...

We have found the next play in Trying to Lose the Election: The Game. Trump looking pathetic and whining about having to hear jurors mocking him? Damn, that sounds like he might lose, time for Biden to STEP UP HIS GAME. What's that, the Feds are going around seizing the supplies of various weed stor...

Guess Biden can go back to pretending to oppose an invasion of Raffa now, because Israel just decided to launch attacks at Iran and also Syria and also Iraq. Almost like Israel has the explicit goal of turning their palestinian genocide into a wider regional war, because then the US will step in on ...

Making a new Fighter as soon as we find the girdle and my character dies.

Can you not do "Orc to get 19 Str" to bypass the whole percentile system?

I mean obviously, you still have to roll an 18 or whatever.

The Biden admin is now signing off with Israel's total genocide invasion of Raffa that they said they weren't okay with over and over. See what happened is Biden said "You are allowed to attack every other country in the world with missiles, but you aren't allowed to invade Raffa" and then...

Joe Biden admin literally just pressuring countries in the UN to vote against Palestinian statehood.

Because it turns out, wow, America is not committed to a two state solution! Who could have guessed!

Not really a loophole. If someone is convicted of a crime that includes jail time (like robbing a bank) they may also have civil penalties (like restitution). The bank probably doesn't care how many years someone stays behind bars but does care about getting the money back. These can be handled tog...

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:56 pm

Yeah but, I mean, fair enough. He is.

Yeah! It's true! He is! That's the problem! His Israel policy is trapped in 1973, his abortion policy is trapped in 1973, his civil rights policy is trapped in 1980s crime panic, ect.

Joe Biden commenting on the Arizona reinstatement of a 1864 law banning abortion "vote for me, I'm living in the 20th century" and boy isn't that a perfect summary of both the democratic and republican parties at the same time.

It's also extremely weird and disgusting to be thrilled by the death of some guy who, yes, killed his ex in a violent rage decades ago, but has been mostly not murdering people for many decades. Like he obviously wasn't a current danger to anyone when he died in 2024 so what the fuck are you crowing...

A unicef aid convoy to Gaza on a un route coordinated with Israel was fired on by Israeli forces while waiting at a designated holding point for the convoy. It's almost like biden having a talk were he promised infinite more weapons but said to stop using them on aid workers in a mean tone of voice ...

After 10 years of DOJ oversight and consent decrees, the Albuquerque police department is shooting more people then any other US city. It's almost like reformist bullshit doesn't work because the cops are actually the bad guys and you can't help them do their job better when their job is to be the b...