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Fucking hell.

The fucking thread title is right there when you post replies.

What is your favourite kind of high level "friendly" NPC?

Like, ... what is even the point. Bunch of fuckwits.

Lol. Phonelobster, did you really just suggest the problem with giving PCs things to do is that the BBEG will immediately know about that, know when and where they are, and take the time to kill them? Because, fuck that is a terrible argument. Mwahahaha, yes I teleported in when you crossed the bord...

I was positing giving the PCs something to do that the high level folk could not in fact do. It's in the bit of my post you snipped out, you dick.

It kind of makes sense for high level NPCs to be in a state of détente. Where they're regularly talking so they don't kill each other, and the talks have in fact resulted in a few peace agreements, requiring them to not wander around murdering enormous numbers of things in each other's territories. ...

Yeah, it's all over the Alexandrian articles on it. Associated is where the Wizard's brain breaks if he tries to fireball twice because he only has room for one fireball in his brain, but disassociated is where fighters hitting things a cool way can't be once per day because that makes no sense. And...

The supreme court's ruling on abortion would be funny, really, if it wasn't so tragic. Correct in that historically, all abortion was banned, but incorrect in that Roe vs Wade recognised that historical fact and fixed it in law, forbidding bans on abortion before viability. Because in history, you w...

Heh, yeah, it'd have to be always on, really. Some people just need to take a beating, and whatever the partial effect is on "if you were immune to death" on the finger of death can contribute to that, so people don't feel too bad about trying things. Like it does when you zap a Vampire wi...

I think it probably makes a better D&D game to define leaders in general, where all PCs are (at least 4th level + or so), and NPCs that are obviously in charge of a group, and like Beholders or whatever. Where leaders don't roll for morale failures, are immune to social skills, never die (or tak...

DnD solved the "you might die" problem right from the start, by giving PCs stacks of hit points, and having monsters do not enough damage to kill them in one hit, but that in turn reduced their hit points until one hit would eventually kill them. But you could see it coming, and do somethi...

Yar, the question was, how to you have save or die mechanics in these modern games with multi-hour sessions dedicated to character creation, rather than the, 3d6 in order and you're probably a fighter and you have 10 hp, welcome to dnd, of old. And I think just having random death kinda everywhere i...

Someone had a thing with the death flag. Where, nothing can kill your PC, because they're a PC, unless you think it's dramatically appropriate to risk that. Boss NPCs can have the same trick. Then, get like +4 to hit and damage and +1 attack, or -4 to opponent saves, or whatever, but you earn that b...

The thing where your feats are set by what stat you have to push to 20 to be competitive is, ... I mean, probably better than choosing stats or a feat, but it's also poorly indexed for that purpose. Like, if you're going to be a Stronk, finding out what options you really have isn't easy. Then, how ...

So by 538.com the House is 70:30 likely to go republican, and the Senate is 70:30 likely to go democrat. So, that, like, kills all the Trump inquires? Can actually put sane judges in place, not that it matters at this point. About 7-8 R majority in the house, so, maybe get basic legislation passed, ...

Have they done that well on the cleaning up the whole race thing? Like, can't help but note Orcs are still bred for war, Gnomes are still supernaturally cunning trickster illusionists, Elves are still the old biblical folk created and fallen from grace that still live for centuries and yearn for tim...

Jesus the SC has just gone full on bullshit, eh. Separation of Church and State, gone. State teachers may force students to pray with them, but in reality, of course, only the Christian ones. Treaties with the various American tribes, just torn up and chucked in the rubbish, tribal law no longer exi...

That 5th circuit ruling about how federal agencies don't actually have the power to do anything, there seems to a be a lot of lawyers suggesting this will be catastrophic, like, described as an openly nihilist approach to government. But, like, where normally the SC would bin that, because, lol, reg...

Just a bit shocked, that the whole "fuck the privacy of your physical body, no" thing coming down from the supreme court soon, which, like, it's behind all of modernity in the US, got all leaked and shit, and Biden's first speech after was how that could be bad and is a good reason for peo...

The US invasion of Iraq (major nuclear power invading nation of ~40 million) was wall to wall news for like six months, the main difference was the treated the US side as truth and the minor Iraqi successes along their steady defeat as propaganda so weak as to be laughed at. Literal comedy shows doi...

The normal means of governing a parliamentary democracy at war time are to form a government of national unity and give ministerial and cabinet positions to the opposition, effectively running the place as a one-party state that includes members of all previous parties until the war is over. It lets...

Hmm. Kobolds. So, their interesting history in D&D is, Tucker's Kobolds, which is to say, they epitomise that clever use of terrain, environment, equipment, and so on, can make groups of even the weakest monsters trouble for mid-level parties. This was more true in AD&D than later, of course...

So they passed $1 trillion (over ten years) of their $5 trillion dollar (over five years) "lets not have the economy completely collapse, yeah?" bills. It's 1.2 over 10 years, or ... 0.6% of GDP (or less, because it's not inflation adjusted in future, of course). Which, basic lookup, the U...

I was reading someone wrote about the first 100 days of FDR. He had a house and senate didn't want to vote for his New Deal. So he told them to vote for it, without compromise. Then he declared a banking holiday for two weeks, so money stopped, in the entire country, when they were in session. Presi...

So the dance around the stimulus is now they've taken the 1.2 trillion out of the 4.7 trillion they'll have to cut the remaining 3.5 trillion down to 1.5 trillion because the rediculous narcissist Manchin wants to be in the news again. And also, the 1.2 trillion is now just 1 trillion and also will ...

https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2j45d?FEAT-Weapon-Focus#11 Frankly, feats and abilities that fade into the background as you grow more powerful are, I think, good for the game. One of the largest problems facing high-level play is the complexity. if EVERYTHING you ever gained as you level up remains eq...