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1185524748[/unixtime]]So I can claim you rape babies? [br][br]OK, let me partly concede the point: I don't think voicing OPINIONS and SUGGESTIONS should ever be outlawed. Making up facts to incite to violence or generally slander someone should not be allowed. Indeed falsely yelling "Fire!&quo...

"There has to be some form of limit of freedom of speech."

No. Even the limitations on the things you can suggest ought to be done to the president are ridiculous.

I am going to run a few random combats with your system in the next few days and let you know if I run into any problems. I'm not exactly a master of Game Breaking Cheese Fu, but I might be able to sniff out more problems by actually playtesting it.

Here are my suggestions:[br][br]Have Athletics encompass Running, Swimming, Jumping and Climbing (and Digging/Flying for creatures that can do so). It should be a combat skill that pertains to speed.[br][br]Have Acrobatics encompass Tumbling and Balance. It should be a combat skill that pertains to ...

[br] I could imagine that difference causing problems, but it's one of many tactical differences between martial fighting and casting, and it's hard to predict where everything balances out. For example, casters are likely to have a wider range of effects they can produce. Of particular note, pure f...

A list of my political beliefs which cause a lot of people to look at me like a madman:[br][br]1. I'm a social libertarian... like hardcore. Legalize all drugs now. Automatic rifles in every home that wants one. Combine the two! Let gays get married, or even better: kick the state out of marriage le...

Actually Tzor, "streaking" or running naked in public is indeed a cultural marker. I'm not going to go do research on just how universal a phenomenon it is, but my guess that it's fairly limited to certain age-groups within a narrow range of societies.

Interesting system.[br][br]I need a couple of clarificatiosn though:[br][br]1. Is someone penalized for attempting to resist several spells, like they are when attempting to evade various attacks? If not, then it may change optimum party composition to benefit multi-fighter parties. Particularly mul...

Funny, about 3 months back I tried a forum game using Shadowrun for survival horror. Unfortunately, the GM bailed on the game before we'd attacked our first zombie. Pity.

I've always used "streaking" for when I use a loop on an agar plate, and tend to use "culture" when referring to bacteria in broth (no solid agar).

Yes. It has been noted. Repeatedly, I daresay. But it's cool... this is a problem that needs to be noted since it seems endemic to most systems.

PVP matters if the "monsters" that you throw at your party can include classed creatures like the PCs themselves. This isn't PVP sensu stricto , but that's one reason that I can think of why you wouldn't just want to balance the classes out in terms of which monsters from the MM they can k...

Desdan said:[br]"Here's a simple fact, guys: A good DM with a good crew can make crappy rules lots of fun."[br][br]That is not a universal fact. I have a friend that is a SUPERB DM, but because he's a 'fudger' I have a hard time playing the game (he's run a D&D campaign and a old WoD c...

Works quite well with respect to how crappy everything else is, yes.[br][br]D&D is the go-to system for high fantasy, I will admit that. The core d20 system has some horrible gameplay flaws, but at least it's got some semblance of internal coherence and it's actually somewhat intuitive.[br][br]H...

Does the D&D system have a proper "niche" in which it fits best, and if so, why is it so hard for me to find? [br][br]Yeah, D&D has a niche: the "I want to play and I need players and a system that is familiar to most people" niche. Other than that it's almost completely...

Again, I find that the problem there is:
1. Faulty rules.
2. Rule 0 being used arbitrarily to make up for faulty rules.

Solution: boycott d20 product, and play something else.

Reading the original post again, i notice that we're not really answering the question. First RC, let's deal with your questions on speciation:[br][br]RC said:[br]"So as apes evolve into men, was there a point where a caveman could mate with a female ape? If not, how was it that there were enou...

The origins of sex is still considered an open question in evolutionary biology, notably due to the two-fold cost of sex first denoted by John Maynard-Smith.[br][br]My favorite solution to the problem is called the Red Queen hypothesis, where sex is used to maximize recombination of genes in arms ra...

I prefer the angler fish approach: hang gifts and trinkets within their reach and then... *snack*. Oh... wait.... we're talking about mating aren't we?

"The internet is a cesspit of ignorance and stupidity."

It's better than the real world, because at least a digital record of said stupidity is kept for posterity. Furthermore, the minority of people that aren't completely retarded can locate each other much more easily.

I remember back in '01 looking at the monk class and thinking it was sweet. One of the players in my first 3e campaign ran a monk/rogue and only did anything remotely notable when he sneak attacked. I also pointed out the un-errated Ninja of the Crescent Moon to him, I think he took one level before...

Keep going. This resonates a lot with me on many levels. Not as a player, but as a DM that put a little too much faith in problematic system.

SAME is simply a very stable and inherently balanced backbone that can reasonably be used for any fantasy roleplaying and I think it can be used for RIFTS just fine. It is, however, just the supporting structure over which a full system can be built, so if you do decide to use it, be aware that it w...

It seems to me that for Non Causal to work, you have to "delete" everything to the 'right' (future) of the time traveler's arrival in the timeline.[br][br]So let's take Abe and Josh.[br][br]Abe goes back from 1999 to 1970.[br][br]Abe shows up in 1970, and everything after that moment is 'd...

"But they droped it because they can rely on one person to make official revisions after the fact through columns and a faq."[br][br]Actually, there's no reason RPG products can't be patched like that. The problem comes when the patches all come from different people, and say different thi...