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Iduno wrote:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52053656

Check it out guys... We ('merica) got the border to close and mexico to pay for staff it. Wooo team.

/headesk

Not exactly shilling... just wondering if anyone knew if Gloomhaven was any good.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13 ... d-printing

I didn't even know the Paizo one was a thing. Is it any good in physical or digital form?

Trapfinding is not role defining, not even a little bit. You don't have a character in your party whose role is to prevent you from walking into traps and nothing else . At best it's a minor support addition to a poorly defined role that includes finding stuff and sneaking and striking for massive d...

Possibly relevant Asterix example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmY ... =MovieMoan

There are cases where keeping your momentum after a jump is an extremely bad thing. For example, jumping from one side of a galaxy to the other so your default momentum is now against galactic rotation for example. Even if you have to drop out regularly, I'd be surprised if someone didn't figure out...

The encounter distance rules should update themselves more easily by falling out of the updated perception stuff as modified by cover and take 0 / stand guard rules Were the standard ranges and range increments for sight and hearing DCs based on encounter distances, or real-world values for human s...

How does ToProwess stealth/detection rules interact with sound, scent tracking? Stealth is supposed to only make it hard to notice you with sight or audio stuff, but I think it's more broadly written right now. Stealth basically adds to the dc to notice you. Notice is a single check to notice thing...

The DC starts at the target's CR + 13, so it falls firmly on the side of Super Dickery , despite the text's attempt to wiggle out with "rapport" vs behavior or any argument that Clark's default rapport with random strangers is Helpful rather than Indifferent. That's not quite right. The s...

Yeah, the hypercomm thing was annoying, but I think the implications about its timing are even worse. They get the hypercomm approval and then they drop out right where they need to be. Which means either they just happened to get the timing exactly right or you can just sit in hyperspace until it's...

I'm curious what your solution for #2 looked like Star.

"We're in a difficult time in our country and I don't think more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else. It's very sad to see. I resist the notion," Bush said at a campaign stop in South Carolina. " I had this challeng...

I should have clarified, because I asked that terribly above. I was half asleep and stubbornly refusing to lie down. Apologies :-( Yes, everyone here needs to have basic income, because giving moneys to the poor does all kinds of great things and is way more effective than other distribution schemes...

Finally someone acknowledges supply-and-demand. But you can't control demand, which leaves supply as the only manipulable variable. And we're currently vastly increasing the supply of workers available for all the low-level jobs by tolerating illegal immigration. I agree. We should also give a basi...

Haven't read the mechanics, I stopped when it was clear that you aren't doing anything with the B Movie Cardgame series I was expecting. You should probably find a different name if you want to avoid confusion among prospective customers, and possible legal nonsense.

I'm actually brainstorming for an alternative skills list right now (I'd really like to cut the list down by about half), but yes, I can imagine situations in play that could make all of those skills useful. Maybe not particularly common, though. Without falling into the SWSE trap of "every ch...

tussock wrote:the drinking thing is all bullshit. Drunkeness in general, it's all social conditioning and people just act like they think drunk people should act, only slower.

Citation needed.

Elementalist power variation per round goes up substantially if the die size grows as they level up (maybe you meant that it depends on level in a different way though?) . That might be countered by having additional elements as you level up or weighting the dice, as the odds of rolling one well eno...

My point is that no one here has enough so saying that "4e failed" is at best an outright lie. It MIGHT be right, but you do not know that and can not know that (well if you worked for Wotc and had access to their info you could, but that seams doubtful). For someone so disillusioned with...

TOZ wrote:Unchained Rogue gains the Skills Unlocked system, which grants extra uses for skills at 5, 10, 15, and 20 ranks.

Hrm... why does that sound familiar...

I don't think it is inherently bad if race doesn't matter. There are games where everyone is just "human" and that doesn't particularly make the game worse. I also don't think that there is anything inherently wrong with it being more of a backstory thing. I would just personally like it ...

I think you misunderstand my idea Starmaker - I'm not proposing a counter-surveillance setup (though those are amusing), but an open surveillance setup. We're not going to beat the NSA at their game, but they could let us all play instead by making all their results public so you could just go look ...

Blah blah everyone gives over their data to private entities blah blah spy agencies suck up everything anyway blah blah post privacy. If we're already giving up privacy to corporations and having it taken from us by our government, should we just open it all up to anyone? Would having open access to...

Yeah, I saw this and liked the char gen stuff. And then I saw the asking price, and laughed while I closed the tab and promptly forgot about it.

What Cham said. If they're will to play something that potentially doesn't work, do that. You'll find out that it... [*]doesn't work like you though it would, so you can make adjustments before you get much farther or too settled on things, [*]does work well enough, so you can move forward with less...