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- Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:47 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027423
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
A more typical answer is that whoever was writing that option was phoning it in that day because they don't give a fuck about the work so much as not getting fired.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:28 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So, there's no moderators, right?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11449
Re: So, there's no moderators, right?
There's a lot of text posts that I use as references still. Might need to start archiving them somewhere else.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So, there's no moderators, right?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11449
Re: So, there's no moderators, right?
They're all reported. But I'm pretty sure nobody is reading the reports.
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 7:53 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So, there's no moderators, right?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11449
So, there's no moderators, right?
I'm 95% sure this site isn't moderated anymore.
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:43 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Climate Change
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7030
Re: Climate Change
Why are you all so god damn awful?
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 97969
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
My friend, you replied to this: And then, to deal with that, when making a class that only does one thing and that thing is HP damage via fire, we have "You ignore Immunity to Fire". I'm not complaining about the character in the game I run who is a Puppeteer, because he legit does other t...
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 97969
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
This is exactly what I mean by bad faith arguments. Jesus Christ, dude.
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 97969
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
Point out what you have issue with and describe whats wrong with it. Precisely this: If you're going to avoid it, the best place is to make immunity perfect, but only give it when appropriate. Resistance is fine in most cases. The rules should be written such that the difference between the underst...
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 97969
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
PL, how much do you make on commission every time you make a bad faith argument? Because damn dude, you had better be making bank if this is your full time job.
- Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:04 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12884
Re: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
Literally everyone who watches the news at this point knows that Fox News is fascist shit. Not knowing whether some random youtuber is or isn't a fascist is more defensible. Especially when that random youtuber is apparently a black guy doing react videos and gaming content. Not exactly the poster c...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 6th edition / One D&D
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16474
Re: 6th edition / One D&D
It looks like they're keeping Bounded Accuracy, and they have introduced a rule where you fail skill checks on a 1 and succeed on a 20 (I don't remember if that was in 5e). I'm going to fucking kill myself. Next thing you'll tell me is that they made Concentration even more restrictive and unfun. A...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How to Implement Save or Dies in a Balanced D&D System
- Replies: 167
- Views: 57103
Re: How to Implement Save or Dies in a Balanced D&D System
About having Not-Die currency, would that be it's only use, or would you use it for other things? If it's only used for that, you don't have the problem of it being wasted and not available when needed for important Not-Dying, though. Spending your Not-Die currency should alter your character in so...
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How to Implement Save or Dies in a Balanced D&D System
- Replies: 167
- Views: 57103
Re: How to Implement Save or Dies in a Balanced D&D System
Something like the Power Word series of spells or Murtak's lich touch suggestion is best. I'm currently tinkering with rules where you roll Xd6 to attack, and if the sum exceeds the target's hit points, they just die. Otherwise, they lose hit points equal to the single best die rolled. For moves tha...
- Sun May 15, 2022 1:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027423
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
Does anyone know where to find that post Frank made about expanded Stellar Oracles lore? Not for the WoD splat, but for the Stellar Oracles as an organization in After Sundown, and how they thought prophecies worked.
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:16 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Rittenhouse Trial
- Replies: 58
- Views: 12613
Re: Rittenhouse Trial
The LegalEagle video seems mostly good, except for the part where he seemed to think excluding the video of Rittenhouse saying that he wanted to 'kill looters' was reasonable. A video in which Rittenhouse explains that his motive was to go 'kill looters' because they are 'rioting and looting' very c...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: mechanics for armor quality / Soak + armor coverage
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4956
Re: mechanics for armor quality / Soak + armor coverage
Worlds Without Number has an interesting system where armour increases your AC in the usual D&D way, turning 'hits' into 'misses' but where most melee weapons have a minimum "shock damage" applied to anyone without a high enough AC, even if the attack misses. For example, a greatsword ...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [3.X/PF] Good non den homebrew
- Replies: 44
- Views: 11865
Re: [3.X/PF] Good non den homebrew
Other things you can get infracted for on Giant: -Using the phrase 'like in a political cartoon' in reference to the exaggerated art style used to draw the non-human characters in a particular RPG product. -Drawing an analogy to historical polytheistic practices in order to explain how NPCs in a fic...
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Credible Masquerades?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 27385
Re: Credible Masquerades?
This setup is intended for more of a Changeling or Mage setup, where part of the premise is that there exist powerful forces who want the PCs dead/captured and where they're covering up masquerade breaches out of more of a witness protection motive than out of a grand conspiracy motive. It doesn't w...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Credible Masquerades?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 27385
Re: Credible Masquerades?
Hoping to get onto a less stupid version of this question, Chronicles of Amber manages to provide a fairly reasonable excuse for a masquerade: There exists one (well, technically two) True World (which is run by powerful wizards) and a nigh-infinite number of Shadow Worlds which are copies of the Tr...
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 5:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why are kobolds?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 17597
Re: Why are kobolds?
I personally prefer the interpretation that kobolds are just haploid dragons. The result of leaving dragon eggs unfertilized. White dragon who hasn't gotten laid in years? Laid a kobold egg every month during that span, and now has a whole lot of children with ice magic, poor job prospects and confl...
- Sat Jun 05, 2021 1:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shopping for a new system
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3118
Re: Shopping for a new system
Blades in the Dark manages to satisfy the collaborative storytelling, not completely awful social mechanics and incentive to roleplay requirements. Its combat system is much more functional than 5e, but unlike PbtA it has actually has a fairly robust way to handle variable action difficulties. What ...
- Fri May 14, 2021 3:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027423
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
2) It is noted that Strigoi (at least) must consume blood regularly to survive. Is that a Power Point need, do they consume PP and if so, on which schedule ? During a very early draft of After Sundown, vampires required 1 PP per day to survive, but this was removed during later editing passes, arou...
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027423
They're big and strong and uncivilized like Ogres, but Good- and Nature-aligned. Gentle, misunderstood giants. Even if that were true, Ents do it better and more memorably. But the Woses are specifically short and not particularly gentle. They get mistaken for goblins, but remember that Tolkien did...
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027423
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:55 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: From the Depths of Wikipedia
- Replies: 2956
- Views: 447653