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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.

There's a lot of text posts that I use as references still. Might need to start archiving them somewhere else.

They're all reported. But I'm pretty sure nobody is reading the reports.

I'm 95% sure this site isn't moderated anymore.

Why are you all so god damn awful?

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...

This is exactly what I mean by bad faith arguments. Jesus Christ, dude.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

They're big and strong and uncivilized like Ogres, but Good- and Nature-aligned. Gentle, misunderstood giants.